WARNING! Physical Log size 1000 is too small

Reposting since I lost news access shortly after the first post ... I recently got this error message in my log file when I was doing some testing ... 23:28:43 WARNING! Physical Log size 1000 is too small. Physical Log overflows may occur during peak activity. Physical Log size should be increased to '4800' to guard against physical log overflows. 23:28:43 Onconfig parameter PHYSFILE modified from 6000 to 1000. Can anyone tell me how Online calculates that a certain physical log size is "too small"? What does it depend on? I would like to know what was used to arrive at "4800". Another question I have is why the physical log size should be any bigger than the number of BUFFERS -- isn't the physical log just the unmodified copy of what is in the page buffers before either a checkpoint or the page buffer is otherwise written to disk? -- -- dan jatnieks Siemens Rolm Communications Inc. dan.jatnieks@siemensrolm.com http://www.siemensrolm.com/