Oracle support(without knowing anything about my system) is telling me to use the following settings: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING = 50 OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ = 5 Tom Kyte's book effective Oracle by Design recommends starting optimizer_index_caching at my cache/hit ratio and adjusting as needed. Tim Gorman's paper 'Search for Intelligent Life in the Cost-Based Optimizer' states that OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ should be set between 10 and 50 for most OLTPs. This is a hybrid system, but I only have the OLTP parts to stress test(the other parts are still in early phase development). Does anyone have any opinions on this? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------