Mohammed, Good question. I can't remember the specifics, other that it made it work :) I think it had something to do with a delay in stats appearing due to some timeout in smon; I am on the road now and don't have access to run some tests. I have used this script at many sites since 8.1.7 and felt the numbers were consistent. Let me know if you think something is wrong... Bruce McCartney > > > > No...wait, Bruce's script and idea is accurate if you also > include the conversion-to-seconds factor, it was me who > screwed up. When the script runs, it issues a > dbms_lock.sleep(30). If you multiply the INS_RATE by 30, > you'll get a figure close to 7k rows/sec. > > In fact, changing sleep(30) to sleep(1) also gives a value > close 7k rows/sec. Getting rid of it altogether, also works. > > So what was the idea behind the sleep? > > Thanks again. > > -- > mohammed > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l