If you just need this for auto dop, my recommendation would just follow that note and use 200 for MAX_PMBPS (commands below). delete from resource_io_calibrate$; insert into resource_io_calibrate$ values(current_timestamp, current_timestamp, 0, 0, 200, 0, 0); commit; (bounce instances to take affect) On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Randolf Geist <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Freek, > > you might want to have a look at the MOS document "Automatic Degree of > Parallelism in 11.2.0.2 [ID 1269321.1]" where it is also mentioned that the > calibration routine at present might sometimes produce questionable results. > > For your information the only relevant parameter for Auto DOP in 11.2.0.2 at > present seems to be MAX_PMBPS, it looks like that the others are ignored for > the Auto DOP calculation anyway - at least what the MOS document seems to > suggest by setting / hacking this parameter manually e.g. on Exadata > environments. > > I've blogged about that recently: > http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2011/07/cost-is-time-next-generation.html > -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l