Looking at installing a 9.2 patch which runs catcpu. At the end, it runs utlrp. There is a comment in the catcpu script about being able to change the value passed to utlrp so that parallel compiles can be done. I thought utlrp only did serial compiles? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l