Following is the trace and it is doing sequential read on both table from which to read and to write. Elapsed times include waiting on following events: Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited Waited db file sequential read 13910 0.46 71.20 undo segment extension 3260 0.00 0.00 buffer busy waits 147 0.00 0.00 log file sync 43 0.00 0.06 log buffer space 13 0.00 0.00 log file switch completion 2 0.07 0.13 If I modify the query and try to insert 1M records at same time instead of 1000, trace changes like this: Elapsed times include waiting on following events: Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited Waited db file sequential read 804 0.47 11.79 db file scattered read 885 0.55 37.44 undo segment extension 425 0.00 0.00 buffer busy waits 30 0.00 0.00 log buffer space 54 0.53 0.64 log file switch completion 2 0.06 0.10 log file sync 3 0.00 0.00 latch: cache buffers lru chain 1 0.00 0.00 Thanks --Harvinder ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:16 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Insert performance problem Run a 10046 level 8 trace and see where the time is spent. "Harvinder Singh" <Harvinder.Singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/17/2004 12:23 PM Please respond to oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Insert performance problem Hi, We are testing a application prototype and inserting 1000 rows from 1 table and populating into 2nd table in a loop and inserting 1M rows. 2nd table have primary key on 2 column, 1 column unique key and 1 non-unique index on 6 columns We are seeing tps of only about 5000 whereas if I run same test on sql server tps is between 15000 to 20000 Following are the stats on the machine: Oracle 10g on win2k Writing to hard disk having all the datafiles(raid 5) :Avg disk bytes/write 9000 and 13000 Writing to hard disk having log files :Avg disk bytes/write 48000 and 70000