nope. <sigh> not yet I'll go check metalink now. thx. Barb On 6/6/05, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ah, that's why I included the IIRC on the INITIAL size; too lazy > to go look it up. ;) >=20 > Have you checked on MetaLink for possible bugs in a version=20 > you are using? >=20 > 9204 is no longer the 'latest and greatest'. >=20 > Jared >=20 >=20 > On 6/6/05, Barbara Baker <barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks, Jared! I missed that ref in the archives. It looks like > > exactly what's happening to me. > >=20 > > However, in my research, I saw references that lead me to believe > > there might be some way to change the behavior. From a Tom Kyte=20 > > column "LMT's take the initial,next, minextents, pctincrease to figure > > out how much to initially allocate and allocate that much. . . . . > > if you start empty and grow -- it'll adjust. If you say "give me=20 > > big", it'll start big" > >=20 > > and this one from Jonathan Lewis: "normal behaviour pattern is 16 x > > 64K extents before switching to 1mb extents, but if you're importing > > large objects with a large 'initial' size, or if your DDL requests a=20 > > large initial size, then Oracle can skip the smaller size extents and > > leap straight in to 1mb, or even 1m extents." > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l