My dw architect recently suggested that I create a tempFS "ramdisk" to increase performance. Honestly I have no idea what he is talking about. I am not sure he does either. When googling I am getting information that just confuses me. Does anyone here know what he is talking about? Oracle 11.2.02 Redhat 5.4 64bit 500gb ram Creating a disk allocation to use as RAM? That sounds like swap to me. Creating a ram allocation to use as disk, that sounds volatile to me. If am not making any sense, please ignore :) Have a good day. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l