Hi Chris, I think the URL you referred to for Stephan Haisley's paper is: http://www.orapub.com/cgi/genesis.cgi?p1=sub&p2=abs142 Cheers for now, Ron chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx carved on a tree stump on 10/09/2004 09:03: >I've generally found that most "block level contention" e.g. buffer busy waits, >data block waits, segment header waits etc. is influenced much more by >freelists and freelist groups than it is by initrans. > >A good paper on the subject is: > >Freelist Management with Oracle 8i by Stephan Haisley > >Also Tom Kyte's Expert One on One Chapter 6 Database Tables (Freelists) > >Sorry but I only have a hardcopy of Stephan's paper and no URL > >Cheers, > >Chris > >[snip] > -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/