Looks like renice is the only command: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.prftungd/doc/prftungd/set_fixed_prior_setpri.htm setpri() is something you have to write code to make use of. The link has sample code. Yong Huang > We need to set a fixed process priority in AIX5.3 for Oracle Database > processes, just like enable SCHED_NOAGE for Oracle Database in HP-UX. > We know we can use renice command to set process priority manually, > but I don't think this is the only solution on AIX. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l