The large pool size is set to 16777216. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Wagoner Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:58 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: RMAN performance problems What is your setting for LARGE_POOL_SIZE? If you are not using the = large pool, you might try allocating some memory for it and testing your = problem again. Be sure to read about the use of large pool as it pertains to = RMAN. David B. Wagoner Database Administrator -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l