This was a 3 node, 4 cpu/node system ----- Original Message ---- From: Tony Aponte <Tony_Aponte@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:17:23 PM Subject: RE: asynchronous PL/SQL development; DBMS_AQ ?? >>> NB: stats: on one node I see 35,889 dequeue attempts in a 15 minute >>>period taking 29.9% of cpu. I can give you more detail if you need it. Just curious, how many CPUs are on this system? Tony Aponte -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l