You are desperately trying to defend a questionable ( IMO ) feature which at least some of the actual users find objectionable. At the very least give us the option to disable it. I myselsf have never looked at the information it gathers and find it utterly useless. On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:58:28 -0400, Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Have you actually seen this? It's a threaded process so the amount of > time required to collect this info shouldn't impact start up times. > > Jeff > > On 4/9/2013 10:18 AM, Andrew Kerber wrote: > > Those alone will cause it to hang for a long time while trying to > start up. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l