Jurijs >For some cases event that bit can be significant I believe. >During some upgrades, implementations, transitions phases then disk IO >is bottle neck for particular process disabling logging can speed up >thinks tremendously. Personally I don't like _disable_logging. Period. For this reason I have no particular experience to share with you... In the few occasions where the redo stream was really slowing down some particular tasks, I preferred to *temporarily* move the redo logs on some kind of memory disk (e.g. under Solaris it works fine if you put them under /tmp). Regards, Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l