For one of my production instances, the admin/<sid>/bdump directory contains a file called smon_22764_<sid>.trc with entries which look like this: *** 2004-03-18 13:16:56.063 Using 5 slaves for 1 dead transactions Recovered xid: 0x0004.045.00001fae in 0 milliseconds; nchk=0, size=3651 What are these entries and what do the statistics mean? Thanks, Peter Schauss ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------