I remember a situation where the value had to be lowered, for the following reason: they had multiple applications, running on different instances against the same database; at the same time, they had the requirement that inserts should be visible immediately after commit. with the default SCN generation process in a RAC environment, sometimes you will not see those committed inserts. bad application design, of course ... kind regards, Lex. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Adams Seminar http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Connor McDonald Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 06:13 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: max_commit_propagation_delay 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l