Makes sense !! Thanks, BTW, I drilled it down to a 5-column concatenated index (which I forgot to mention earlier) that was on this table. I dropped all index 1 by 1, until I found the above index that was still causing this message. Rebuilding this index took care of it and now the loads are back to normal. - Deepak --- "Marquez, Chris" <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Deepak, > > Ever wonder why a commit normaly on takes a sec or > less even when you are committing tons of row > chagnes? > Because the rows have already changed!...redo, > rollback, and commit logic. > All of this has already been logged to the redo (and > archive) logs just waiting on you to commit or > rollback (that will take time, the rollback). > > You are waiting on redo log files access/time...redo > contention. > What until you have a lot of sessions doing this and > you start having tons of latch wait contention. > > Is your db busy today?...my suggestions is tune your > redo log file (disks). > > hth > > Chris Marquez > Oracle DBA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of > Deepak Sharma > Sent: Fri 11/18/2005 1:17 PM > To: Kevin Closson > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Simple SQL waiting on 'log file sync' > > I am in the process of debugging an application that > uses a PL/SQL procedure that ha sa statement similar > to this. In my testing, I do have a step to commit, > but that is 'after' this insert..select statement. > What I am noticing is that if I run a trace, there > are > 'log file sync' messages. > > Step1: > insert.. select statement <<- generated trace has > the > log file sync message > > Step 2: > commit <<- I'm not even there yet > > Thanks, > Deepak > > > --- Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>> > > >>>INSERT INTO A1 SELECT * FROM B1; > > >>> > > >>>1) Isn't 'log file sync' related to commits? In > > above I am > > >>>not even commiting. > > > > um, if you are not committing, what is the purpose > > of this > > select ? > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in > one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l