In the absense of currently having a RAC environment to play around with, does anyone have any "gut feel" responses to the impact of dropping the commit propagation: a) to any value under its default b) to zero (yeah, I know this is a "how long is a piece of string" question) Cheers Connor --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l