Actually those Concurrency events regarding latches had 0 time_waited. The events that did have some time were "os thread startup" events from CJQ0. Sounds like Oracle trying to kick off scheduled jobs? I'll check the job history. Don. On 9/14/07, Don Seiler <don@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The two largest items are Concurrency and Other. The concurrency > events deal with latches (shared pool and library cache). The Other > events deal with "block change tracking buffer space" and "latch > free". > > There is also a large number of "Configuration" class events, but > those come at 11:28, after all the fun, so might just be another > symptom. > -- Don Seiler oracle: http://ora.seiler.us ultimate: http://www.mufc.us -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l