Help? Why do you need help? Where is the problem? You need more DBWR processes when you suffer buffer busy waits. That's how you know. -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -----Original Message----- From: Hameed, Amir [mailto:Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:34 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Number of database writers in Oracle 9i2 Does anyone know the algorithm that Oracle uses to spawn DBWR processes in Oracle9i2 ? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l