Juan, Since you're looking at UNDO did you see this formula? Larry --Written by Lawrence Wolfson 2004 -- This script helps determine how well your UNDO tablespace is performing -- and how you may change your parameters. -- OEM appears to be reporting "Worst case" information. -- Formula below is from 9i Data Administrator's Guide Chapter 13 page 11. --desc v$UNDOSTAT DEFINE BS=8192 SET LINESIZE 200 SET PAGESIZE 10000 SET NEWPAGE NONE COL Started FOR A20 HEA ' S T A R T T I M E' COL Ended FOR A20 HEA ' E N D T I M E' COL UNDOTSN FOR 9,999 HEA 'ACTIVE| UNDO ' COL UNDOBLKS FOR 999,999,999 COL TXNCOUNT FOR 999,999,999 COL MAXQUERYLEN FOR 999,999,999 COL MAXCONCURRENCY FOR 9999 HEA 'MAX|CON' COL UNXPSTEALCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL UNXPBLKRELCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL UNXPBLKREUCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL EXPSTEALCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL EXPBLKRELCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL EXPBLKREUCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL SSOLDERRCNT FOR 999,999,999 COL NOSPACEERRCNT FOR 999,999,999 SET FEEDBACK OFF SET HEADING OFF SET VERIFY OFF SPOOL $OR/UNDOSTATS.$SID SELECT 'V$UNDOSTAT has 1008 rows repesenting every 10 minutes for a 7 day period.' FROM DB; SELECT 'V$UNDOSTATs for '||name FROM DB; SELECT 'MAX CONCURRENT TRANSACTION IS==>'||MAX(MAXCONCURRENCY) FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SELECT 'MAX QUERY LENGTH in MINUTES IS==>'||ROUND( MAX(MAXQUERYLEN)/60,1) FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SELECT 'UNDO BLOCKS/SEC (AVG) IS==>'||ROUND( AVG(UNDOBLKS)/600) FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SELECT 'UNDO NEEDED FOR 1 HOUR IS==>'||ROUND( 1*3600*(AVG(UNDOBLKS)/600)*&&BS/1073741824,2)||' Gig' FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SELECT 'UNDO NEEDED FOR 2 HOURS IS==>'||ROUND( 2*3600*(AVG(UNDOBLKS)/600)*&&BS/1073741824,2)||' Gig' FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SELECT 'UNDO NEEDED FOR 12 HOURS IS==>'||ROUND(12*3600*(AVG(UNDOBLKS)/600)*&&BS/1073741824,2)||' Gig' FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SELECT 'UNDO NEEDED FOR 24 HOURS IS==>'||ROUND(24*3600*(AVG(UNDOBLKS)/600)*&&BS/1073741824,2)||' Gig' FROM V$UNDOSTAT; SET HEADING ON SET FEEDBACK ON SELECT TO_CHAR(BEGIN_TIME,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24 MI SS') Started -- ,TO_CHAR( END_TIME,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24 MI SS') Ended -- ,UNDOTSN ,UNDOBLKS ,TXNCOUNT ,MAXQUERYLEN ,MAXCONCURRENCY ,UNXPSTEALCNT -- ,UNXPBLKRELCNT -- ,UNXPBLKREUCNT -- ,EXPSTEALCNT -- ,EXPBLKRELCNT -- ,EXPBLKREUCNT -- ,SSOLDERRCNT -- ,NOSPACEERRCNT FROM V$UNDOSTAT ORDER BY 1 ; SPOOL OFF UNDEFINE BS ********************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l