Paul: You will have only one latch if your shared pool is less than 250 MB. But the v$latch_children may (probably) have 7 entries, but only one latch will be protecting the shared pool structures. This can be verified by checking the misses/sleeps for that particular child. Regards, Gopal ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------