Other than the views inside Oracle, how about my topio program run on OS? http://yong321.freeshell.org/freeware/pio.html It sorts on delta of an I/O counter you choose, much like top does. Different OS'es provide different counters. The one for Linux was added lately and I haven't fully understood the meanings of all their counters. Yong Huang > Every once in a while I get confronted with a questions like what > sql (and less importantly, sessions) caused bytes to be sent to/from > the database, genereated most redo, or cause most extensive sort? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l