sorry all. one of these days ill get around to giving all the information to my questions in the begining thread. the current box is over 3 years old, Dell PowerEdge. here's a list of what we are moving to... this also includes a SAN implementation since we were less than 10G away from maxing the current disk. with starring into the headlights of new projects and a new fiscal year, i wanted to be sure we had room for growth. IBM x365, 2xXeon MP 2.7GHz/400MHz, 2MB, 2GB, Open Bay, 2x950W p/s, Rack 2.7GHz/400MHz-2MB L3 Cache Xeon Processor MP Memory Upgrade Card xSeries EXA 1GB PC2100 CL2.5 ECC DDR SDRAM RDIMM IBM Total Storage DS4000 FC2-133 Host Bus Adapter Internal Storage, using RAID 1 IBM 73.4 GB Hot-Swap U320 15 K SCSI SSL Drive 3 YR IOR /24x7x4 (x365 - 8862) ServeRAID-6M Controller (128MBCache) (includes 03K9310 2m External SCSI Cable) reasons for uping the SGA are performace driven, yes. being a newbie, maybe not as much as a month ago, im trying to make sure moving forward we can handle new data requirements. On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:18:03 +0100, Robert Blok <robert.blok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why did you move to the new machine? > > What was the reason for upgrading? > Was the performance bad? Was the response time bad for users (what > users)? Did some batch run too slowly? > > What was your previous machine? > > Robert. > > -- Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l