On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:53:09 -0500, Henry Poras <hporas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just looking at PSINDEX tablespace, I > created it with EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 100K. ...... > After building the tablespace using uniform extents, I created > a new LMT tablespace (PSINDEX_TMP) using AUTOALLOCATE. I then rebuilt > all of my indexes from PSINDEX into PSINDEX_TMP. ....... > The size of the original data file for psindex was ~2.6G > (2,648,391,680 bytes). After rebuilding stuff into psindex_tmp, the > size was ~ 2G (2,021,343,232 bytes). Well 100 is 156% of 64. Your test is therefore weighted in favour of autoallocate since your smallest allocation unit is 56% larger in the ULMT test. You'd need to compare ULMT with a min size of 64k with Autoallocate. I'd predict that the numbers would come out (marginally) in favour of ULMT in this case. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l