Hi Ibrahim, I also dumped LMT/Uniform allocation, and moved to LMT/Autoallocate. On that 27G table, what is the largest size of an extent? I don't think it goes beyond 64M ( I am fine with that :). What is the version of Oracle? Thanks, Arul On 4/22/05, Dogan, Ibrahim - Ibrahim <Ibrahim.Dogan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > Even with LMTs, you still wory about number of extents whenever you run > any command that performs extent allocation/deallocation (create > table/rebuild index/truncate table etc..) >=20 > My point was that I saw many people going back to DMT because of very > same issue you're experiencing with LMTs.. When LMT with uniform extent > size is used, you need to babysit the segments to make sure they don't > go beyong couple thousand extents.. But you don't have this problem if > you use LMT with AUTO extent allocation. My biggest table is 27G in a > AUTO LMT and it has around 600 extents.. >=20 > I generally prefer AUTO LMT and reorg the tables after bulk deletes...=3D= 20 >=20 > Thanks, > =3D20 > Ibrahim DOGAN > Sr. Sybase/Oracle DBA > www.lowes.com > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l