There is a minimum value that Oracle will use for the log buffer. I know it is bigger than 32K, but I haven't tested on 10G. I'm guessing that 2 Meg is the minimum. Keith (2nd try due to quoting rules. OT: Can this be changed to only look at the percentage quoted if original post is large. This was a small post with a short response and it still came back with 93% quoted text) > > > I have a number of 10G databases where the value of log_buffer in the > spfile is not the same as the value within the instance. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l