Ouch! Sorry didn't see that; thanks for pointing it out...In that case, I'm wondering if you have an index on this table populated with a monotonically-ascending data value (i.e. SYSDATE or a sequence NEXTVAL). If so,
freelists certainly wouldn't help you... Quoting "Baumgartel, Paul" <paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Tim, I'm way ahead of you! ;-) Take another look at my post; I did pre-allocate one large extent per instance. Unfortunately, it didn't help. I'm pretty sure that commits are batched; they're sending a batch of insert statements from Java and probably committing after each batch. Transaction rates are only about 1.5 per second. If I get down to log file sync, I'll be happy. The block contention is what's driving me nuts. And it occurs to me that if I restrict the inserts to one instance, I'll just get buffer busy waits instead of gc buffer busy waits. Help! Thanks for your reply.
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