Since this is the only difference between the servers,I think that the number of cpus and the memory size may be a factor in the optimizer calculations. In the server with fewer resources oracle choose another path that needed a lot more blocks,
but used less online memory, and caused a lot more gc 2-way wait. I never delved deep into the optimizer. Adar Yechiel Rechovot, Israel Dion Cho wrote:
You solved your problem by updating the statistics.Why on the earth do you think that CPU count and physical memory size were the reasons?================================ Dion Cho - Oracle Performance Storyteller http://dioncho.wordpress.com (english) http://ukja.tistory.com (korean) ================================
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