In short, yes. Inter-instance write-traffic is to be avoided where possible. In a world of faster interconnects, inter-instance write traffic is less of a problem than it once was. Estimate the overhead cost of switching write-interest in a block at one millisecond. Assume you have the classic right-legged problem of doing inserts where an index is populated by a sequence. How frequently is the index block switched between two nodes if processing 10 records per second on each node? 100? 100,000? At what point does the overhead cost of inter-node interest take longer than the Oracle service costs? At what point does the overhead cost of inter-node interest in one second take longer than one second? On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Vasu <vasudevanr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Common sense says "data usage on RAC nodes- aligned to table partitions > " should do better. > Say, a table list partitioned on state column, thus dividing Txn activity ... > My question is : Has anyone seen significant/dramatic performance gains by > aligning application usage to table partitioning ? > If so, what was the gain % (though it would largely depend on the workload > , h/w etc ) > -- Adam Musch ahmusch@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l