Michael,
I knew I'd seen this somewhere. Assuming that you're discussing "cache
buffers chains" there's a pretty good explanation on Steve Adams' site
(along with details on overriding it) :
http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0010/13050341.htm
Cheers,
Mike Hately
Oracle DBA
-Original Message-
Good Morning!
Does anyone know where Oracle decides how many 'cache buffer
latches'? I have four databases on a single machine, all at the
same version of Oracle, with varying sizes of SGA. One of these
instances has 2048 cache buffer latches, the others have 1024. I'm
wondering if this is a m