Are you auditing into the OS files then? (not to AUD$?) Logins via SYSDBA/SYSOPER will always generate an .aud file, no way around it. And in 11.1 there's a bug 9744092: EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF AUD FILES BEING GENERATED IN 11.1 - which causes even regular (non-sysdba) application logins create audit files. -- *Tanel Poder* Enkitec (The Exadata Experts) Training <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/> | Troubleshooting<http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> | Exadata<http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Oracle-Exadata-Apress/dp/1430233923> | Voicee App <http://voic.ee/> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:14 PM, <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you audit the other things without auditing SESSION (Logons) ? > We have a scenario where we're generating thousands of .aud files per day > - and our user population is not very large. > > I've just started investigating this and want to reduce the number of aud > files generated. > > We have some applications that all they do is connect to the database and > disconnect to verify it is up. And they do this several times a minute > from different servers; an issue which is on "the list" to be addressed. > > > > Chris Taylor > Oracle DBA > Parallon IT&S > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l