Hi Michael > How do you set up system stats on a brand new box with no workload? If you are only changing the db server hardware (i.e. the application is already used in production elsewhere, the I/O subsystem doesn't change and the oracle version is the same) I would suggest doing the following: - Gather noworkload stats (dbms_stats.gather_system_stats(gathering_mode => 'noworkload')) and then set CPUSPEED = CPUSPEEDNW. - Copy the values for SREADTIM, MREADTIM, MAXTHR, MBRC and SLAVETHR from the present (old) production system. If you are changing other "components", please, provide some more detailed information... HTH Chris Antognini Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Apress 2008 http://top.antognini.ch -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l