Hi, Joel. That would mean that it isn't waiting for the shared latch acquisition, but it did wait for a short time. After that short waiting, the session is busy doing something thus burning CPU. V$SESSION_WAIT.STATE would show 'WAITED SHORT TIME' or 'WAITED UNKNOWN TIME' if my assumption servers it right. You can try PROCESSSTATE dump and/or CALLSTACK dump to find out what the session is really doing. ================================ Dion Cho - Oracle Performance Storyteller http://dioncho.wordpress.com (english) http://ukja.tistory.com (korean) http://sites.google.com/site/otpack (tpack) ================================ On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM, <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I’ve been using DBOptimizer and using Tanel Poders scripts. > > SID 0 is using a lot of CPU (in a particular test case). If the latch was > named ‘shared pool latch’ I’d have an explanation, but LatchProfX is > revealing that latch ‘ksuosstats global area’ is at the top and ‘shared pool > latch’ is not listed. > > I went to MOS and searched, as well as Google, and ksuosstats normally > shows up as part of a list of latches and the discussion is normally > centered around another issue. > > Can anyone let me know what this might be all about? Is it part of the > shared pool, and therefore part of the initialization process normally > associated with SID 0? (thanks Tanel). > > Joel Patterson > Database Administrator > 904 727-2546 > > >