This is an Oracle 11i application 11.5.9) and the database version is 9.2.0.6 (64-bit). The thing that is surprising me is that there are no RAC specific waits. It is the CPU usage that is going high. I am sure there is an explanation to this and that is what I am trying to find out. -----Original Message----- From: john d parker [mailto:orclwzrd@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:35 PM To: Hameed, Amir; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; racdba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Job taking longer with more RAC nodes Do you have any degree of parallelism? or is parallel degree set to default? In general, A well behaved app will perform approx the same on RAC maybe even marginally slower. A poorly behaved app will absolutely stink when moved to RAC. RAC is not a performance enhancing solution. John --- "Hameed, Amir" <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > I need some help in understanding why a job is taking longer when it > is run in multiple nodes under RAC versus a single node in RAC and > with RAC disabled. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l