PQ slaves uses direct reads bypassing the SGA to read the segment blocks = which requires waiting to flush all committed changes in the SGA (dirty buffers) of that object to make sure the PQ = slaves will access the most recent version of that object. Regards, Waleed -----Original Message----- From: Diego Cutrone [mailto:diegocutrone@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:25 PM To: Oracle List Subject: TC Enqueue waits Hi List. I have detected high enqueue waits in one instance. After quering x$ksqst I realized most of them were TX and TC enqueues. I'm on the TX enqueues by tracing some sessions. But I have never heard = of TC enqueues I have read that TC enqueue stands for "Thread Checkpoint enqueue".=20 Anybody knows what are they used for? what kind of resources they = protect? And I have another quick question: I'm also seeing Parallel query events like: PX Deq: Execution Msg PX Idle Wait PX qref latch=20 PX Deq: Execute Reply=20 PX Deq: Table Q Normal=20 PX Deq: Parse Reply=20 Does anybody know where I can get a description for them?=20 I'd like to know which ones can be ignored and which ones can't. Thank you very much Regards Diego ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------