Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii It's quite easy measurable on Linux with a 2.6.32+ kernel: run 'perf = record -g -p <pid>' of a session with monitoring and without monitoring, = and analyse the result. That gives quite conclusive results. Frits Hoogland http://fritshoogland.wordpress.com frits.hoogland@xxxxxxxxx +31 6 53569942 On Mar 15, 2013, at 7:57 PM, Niall Litchfield = <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I imagine there might be cases where the rowsource stats gathered = impact > performance (similar issues have affected trace files ) but I haven't = seen > any, and given you'd be using this to look at badly performing SQL in = the > first place I'd say use on your problems until you encounter an actual > issue. RTSM is, frankly, worth the extra cost for the pack on its own. > On Mar 15, 2013 6:46 PM, "Josh Collier" <Josh.Collier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> = wrote: >> Does the /*+ monitor */ hint affect performance at all? >> Thanks for your help! >>=20 >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >=20 >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 >=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l