Hello Jon 'rdbms ipc message' simply means exactly that the process is waiting for an IPC message. There are many processes which can wait for this event, for example, LGWR can wait for this wait event for more work, DBWR can wait for this event etc. Usually, this event can be ignored, but not always. Question is which process is suffering from this issue? How is it affecting the application performance? Cheers Riyaj Shamsudeen Principal DBA, Ora!nternals - http://www.orainternals.com - Specialists in Performance, RAC and EBS Blog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com OakTable member http://www.oaktable.com and Oracle ACE Director Co-author of the books: Expert Oracle Practices<http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-oracle-practices/>, Pro Oracle SQL, Expert PL/SQL Practices<http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:56 AM, CRISLER, JON A <JC1706@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Oracle RAC 11g, AWR reports shoes the metric "rdbms ipc message" as the #1 > in Top 5 wait events. > > I have to admit I don't think I have seen this before, and I am not sure > where to look- > > 11gR2 on Red Hat Linux 5 64 bit, ASM to SAN. > > Any suggestions ? > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l