RE: audit_trail=db Overhead ?

"It depends."

I would think that it largely depends on what you intend to audit and how often those audits occur. For example, on a production system, auditing failed logins may be OK, but auditing both failed and successful logins may put some load on the DB.

You may also want to consider moving the AUD$ table out of the SYSTEM tablespace. If you've got Metalink, see article 1019377.6.

HTH! GL! Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

-----Original Message-----
From: VIVEK_SHARMA [mailto:VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 5:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: audit_trail=db Overhead ?

What would be the overhead of setting audit_trail=db in init.ora on the overall database performance ?

NOTE - This is a heavily loaded Hybrid Database having 4000 concurrent users

What optional settings may be better ? Received on Fri Mar 21 2003 - 08:28:49 CST