$ ps -ef | grep pmon | wc -l 130 Part of this organisation's policy of one application per database... Sigh... On 5/10/05, mhthomas <qnxodba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: > "We just don't know why the server with 25 databases is slow. But, I'm > a firm believer in the silver bullet methodology. If we just start > shutting down production databases one-by-one we'll eventually find > the one that's causing the problem". >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l