I am trying to determine how fast it takes to write a block from the redo log buffer to the redo logs. If I am understanding the statistics in v$sysstat properly, in order to return the number of milliseconds per block write the equation should be as follows: select (a.value*10/b.value) from v$sysstat a, v$sysstat b where a.name = 'redo write time' and b.name = 'redo blocks written'; However, the number I am getting back is quite small (around 0.087). Shouldn't a write be around 2 to 10 ms? What am I missing here? Thanks, Tom -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l