Of course it is also natural that anything having to do with the CUBS waits forever. Isn't there some sort of goat involved? _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Gorman Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:31 PM To: nkodner@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l-freelists Subject: Re: Understanding AWR 'buffer waits' <snip> But, once I find such statements I'd check to see if they are accessing/manipulating tables within the CUBS_DATA tablespace, and then use "select * from table(dbms_xplan.display_awr('sql-id'))" to get the execution plan(s), and then look for something ineffective within the execution plan. <snip> http://www.neilkodner.com/images/skitch/buffer_waits-20100323-105423.jpg Certain tablespaces (cubs_data) have far more buffer waits, compared to others, even others(uworks_misc_index) with a higher amount of reads and writes. Our datafiles for each of the tablespaces are equally distributed across 3 volumes on a SAN. How can i interpret the buffer waits and explain them in order to potentially identify a problem? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l