Thomas, With sync on commit, only 1 session at a time can sync (see note 249991.1 and oracle docu: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/text.102/b14218/csql.htm#sthref197), the other sessions will have to wait. So if you have a high concurrenty of sessions inserting into a table with a text index, the sync on commit can give performance problems due to locking. Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer <snip> We have a COTS application that creates indexes like this: create index {index_name} on {table_name}({column_name}) indextype is CTXSYS.CONTEXT PARAMETERS('SYNC(ON COMMIT)'); </snip> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l