Our control files were 24M before and after recreating them. Orysia Husak Sr. Oracle DBA - Classroom Applications Hosting University of Phoenix/ Apollo Group, Inc. Office: 602-546-6934 Mobile: 602-377-8586 orysia.husak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ________________________________ From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:12 PM To: Orysia Husak Cc: oramail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RMAN hangs after 10.2 upgrade On 3/2/07, Orysia Husak <Orysia.Husak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: When we upgraded from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 our rman backups started taking significantly longer. We were seeing control file sequential read waits. Once we recreated the control files, the rman backups speeded up again. On databases that we created at 10.2.0.2, we didn't see this bizarre behavior in the rman backups. Do you know how large the control files were prior to recreating them? -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist