Larry, As you stated that the lob is rather small, could you check if it is kept inline? regards, -- Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(03) 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer.html On wo, 2013-05-01 at 00:19 +0200, Larry Elkins wrote: > What we would see is fetch calls for the SQL statement driving the elapsed > time match doing array fetches, seen in the summary of > fetch calls as well as looking at "r=" on the FETCH call in the raw trace. > Then the sql*net message from client on CURSOR #0, which > tied back to the LOB operations when doing the 10051 trace, would be mixed in > between those fetch calls. This I believe is what you > are describing. I'm assuming the lob locator being returned then going back > and getting the LOB data. > > Our first step was the 10046. And yeah, our thought when so little time in > the DB was ok, how much of this is network time, and how > much is client think time? And that's why one of the other people dropped > opnet on the process, which should be able to break that > out, how much time in the client, on the middle ties, how much on the > network, etc. > > Larry G. Elkins > elkinsl@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cell: 214.695.8605 > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l