Hey Stefano, > Also AIX is not the best OS for Oracle. > You will encounter many stupid bugs. Care to back that statement up with some facts? I've created and managed 10.1 and 10.2 DBs on a handful of different p5 AIX boxes -- including micro-partitioned blades -- without a single platform-specific bug that I can recall. And there's no silly kernel tunables to deal with, either. Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l