Robyn, I'd be interested in knowing where the sysadmins are seeing drive queueing. If they're seeing it in Glance, I don't think this is as much file size / layout as potentially an overworked path(s) between the HP box and the EMC chassis. If it's on EMC monitoring tools, that's a different factor, but to my knowledge, Glance can't see beyond the OS and local hardware. How big are the files they want you to break up? If there is true disk queuing, then I'd ask what they are doing to move 'hot' file systems to hypers on lesser utilized disks. (EMC has tools to do this on the fly, I'd inquire to see if that is available in your environment.) Also, given the increase in CPU count and speed, I wonder if you might not benefit from system statistics (if you're not already gathering them). Take a look at Jonathon Lewis' (very informative) paper at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/lewis_cbo.html I'd also push forward with that 9.2.0.5 patch. You've already seen that it can make a difference as well, I'd be concerned that any work (tuning) you do now would not behave the same after patching. Yes, yes, yes to locally managed tablespaces. I don't have any handy evidence of performance improvement, but they are definitely easier administratively. One more thought on the large files, if there is a lot of concurrent use, you may benefit from multiple smaller files. If you're on filesystems and not raw devices, HP (and probably others) has some factor with single use locking from the OS. I think this also is in a Jonathon Lewis paper out there somewhere. Good luck! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------