Hi I have this doubt for quite long time and asked qite a few people but seems that so far no one knows the reasoning. If I run a simple FTS query against a 8GB table for example I can observe a I/O throughput of around 30 to 40MB, if I run 2 session each get 30 to 40MB bandwidth too (aggregate 80MB/sec) however the storage array has more than that, the maximum throughput I got from an XIV array recently is 250MB read and 250MB write running 8 parallels. What is the mechanism which limits a single session cannot have more than 30, 40MB throughput? Some sort of SAN QOS? TIA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l