Until I found your comment about 8,000 sessions per day, and the 60 batch jobs in a minute, I was going to say that Dan Fink's idea sounded really good - especially if you extend it to switching on the audit trail (audit_trail=db) and auditing by session, as this leaves a log on time, log off time db block changes (qua logical writes) in the audit trail.
For a more manageable number of connections per day, this might give you a clue about who is doing most data change when. (Bear in mind, that a user that does a massive data change could leave lots of dirty blocks around, and the next big report might generate a huge amount of redo due to dirty block cleanout. So some of the "redo guilt" could be effectively randomly distributed across innocent victims). Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon one-day tutorials: Cost Based Optimisation Trouble-shooting and Tuning Indexing Strategies (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ) ____UK_______March 19th ____USA_(FL)_May 2nd Next Seminar dates: (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ) ____USA_(CA, TX)_August The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 February 2003 20:06 >As always Jonathan you give me plenty of areas to go looking, thanks for the >great advice. One of the problems is cron kicks off various application >processes in the line of over 60 per minute (log in, do something, log out, >oh and commit between each row of course). That on top of hundreds of users >accessing the system and oh 4 or 5 developers working in the same database >doing whatever they please. I found one guy the other day had issued >290,000 commits in a single session using Toad. Argghhhh! You get the >idea. I am attempting to bring in a little sanity to the situation before >they recommend buying more CPUs! > >- Ethan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).