Hi Zoran, > Oracle is not accounting everything in CPU used by > this session. > There are some other OS CPU time waits you can > observe > from the v$sysstat and v$sesstat, but only if you > have > set timed_os_statistics like: > OS User level CPU time > OS System call CPU time > OS Other system trap CPU time > > For example OS User level CPU time is always greater > (or it should be) then CPU used by this session. > Also be aware of CPU used when call started if you > have some crap Oracle version. > We aren't gathering OS statistics as of now. Are there any drawbacks of using the same? In case I start gathering OS stats, how do I relate the OS System Call CPU time to a particular session? Does this value get added to the CPU values in 10046 trace files? If not, then I won't gather much information about the process by gathering OS stats. Regards New DBA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l