In some cases using RAM disk to store a temp tablespace can be beneficial for performance. It can improve your operations using temporary segments. And it is safe since it is only temporary files. Cheers, Gleb On 20/08/2013 6:41 PM, David Roberts wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l