Hi Christo, thanks for the suggestion. I did eventually end up doing a full Oracle install and created a test database with filesystemio_options=setall. Too bad orion doesn't support directio - hopefully they'll add it in a future release. Another workaround I used for testing with orion to prevent caching was to flush the linux cache immediately before the test by either creating a file larger than my RAM and then deleting it, or using this trick on OEL5: http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches (just be careful not to use that on OEL4, or it may freeze the box like it did for me and you'll have to reboot). Regards, Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Christo Kutrovsky [mailto:kutrovsky.oracle@xxxxxxxxx] p.s. why not test directly from Oracle? Just do a index lookup in a loop with several sessions. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l