Does anyone know how to differentiate between keep and recycle pools in v$bh? Seems like that they are included there but I am not 100% sure as the numbers don't add up properly. Anyone has experience with this? -- Christo Kutrovsky DBA Team Lead The Pythian Group - www.pythian.com I blog at http://www.pythian.com/blogs/ -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l