It is good to know that there are folks who are running their mission critical apps on UDP. ________________________________ From: racdba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:racdba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rjamya Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:12 AM To: racdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: High "global cache blocks lost" statistics on one RAC node We too run mission critical databases (where downtime costs us thousands) and they all use UDP and have always been reliable. YMMV Raj On 9/7/05, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: This is a mission critical application and processes millions of $$ of revenue and I am a little hesitant in going with UDP because of its not-so-reliable reputation. I may escalate this with VOS tomorrow and see what they have to say. Amir