Stefano, Not an answer to your question, but the recycle bin is supposed to be cleaned automatically when Oracle needs space in that tablespace. I even think that Oracle will first clean out the recycle bin and only after that increase the datafile (if autoextend has been enabled). In that sense it is normal that no special attention is set to the recycle bin. Are you sure that the errors you got where caused by the recycle bin? Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer -- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefano Cislaghi Sent: maandag 13 september 2010 21:38 To: Oracle L Subject: EM, capacity planning and monitoring Hi all, does anyone know if, and maybe how, it's possibile with EM to monitor datafile space allocation, tablespace free space per minute... I've never used EM for this, instead I've always used and seen to be used few sql scripts and graphical tools as cacti, rrd, or custom ones... I've also seen that EM in the report 'database usage' shows two lines: - allocated space of all datafiles - space used by all objects No special attention to recycle_bin .... if space is exhausted due to full recyclebin the report still shows available space in db and also EM was not able to discover a tablespace full situation even if active sessions were getting ORA-1652 ... Thanks Stefano -- http://www.stefanocislaghi.eu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l