Jeremy, Thanks. Now it makes much more sense. I think this feature is very useful in this case: (1) Connections have long duration, and (2) There're lots of connections, or a few connections but they're all CPU or memory (but not I/O) intensive. I would not make use of this feature to automatically shutdown or startup an instance when it detects significant load change. If I'm given say 4 nodes, why would I keep some down unless I want to do some maintenance work? I guess I can save a little on electricity bill, but I'd rather do it manually. BTW, Martin mentioned v$tsm_sessions. It always has some data in it, even on non-RAC. This view is mentioned in the new view section of the Reference Guide but has no detailed description. Yong Huang --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10750/chapter1.htm#sthref230 > Resonance: Reduces costs of operating databases by > ... > Transparent Session Migration: Automatically migrates sessions, > including all state, from one instance to another, with no impact on > end-users. Rebalances sessions across instances for load balancing, and > in preparation for deprovisioning an instance. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l