Dear Lord, LD> is it best to base it on statspack/bstat/estat, some form of response time LD> breakdown (I'm reading Cary's book at the moment) or something else LD> entirely. Read deeply into it, and You will understand that main point is that You must concentrate on user actions (complains) and not on anything else like values of db "metrics". The "healthy" database is database that is not doing anything. -- Edgar ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------