I don't believe there is any difference in the binaries, but there is RAC "overhead" if you run 1 instance with cluster_database=true compared to false. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't have any definitive data, but, if I recall correctly, one of the > Oakies, maybe Bjorn Engsig(?), did a test, and found that running RAC > binaries on a single instance database caused a noticeable performance > penalty over the single instance binaries. > If I recall correctly, he was quoting around 12-15% performance hit? Sorry, > I don't remember details, and this was at least 2 years ago..... -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l