Hi,
Oracle only transfers what is requested across the network. So the overhead depends on your application and what your users are doing.
To get an estimate for your DB, try the following:
SQL> SELECT name, value
2 FROM v$sysstat
3 WHERE LOWER(name) LIKE '%net%'
4 /
NAME VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
bytes sent via SQL*Net to client 74270
bytes received via SQL*Net from client 10002
SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client 105
bytes sent via SQL*Net to dblink 0
bytes received via SQL*Net from dblink 0
SQL*Net roundtrips to/from dblink 0
6 rows selected.
Best regards.
Frank