I don't think "wait for scn ack" is a factor in this issue. I previously looked at the bugs you cited and our version is supposedly patched beyond that level (i.e. fixed in 11.1.0.7.3 and we are higher than that). Avg %Time Total Wait wait Waits % bg Event Waits -outs Time (s) (ms) /txn time -------------------------- ------------ ----- ---------- ------- -------- ------ latch: ges resource hash l 1,758 0 0 0 0.0 .0 db file parallel read 7 0 0 12 0.0 .0 latch: row cache objects 3,588 0 0 0 0.0 .0 gc cr block congested 3 0 0 25 0.0 .0 enq: TA - contention 104 0 0 1 0.0 .0 gc current split 7 0 0 9 0.0 .0 enq: JS - queue lock 3 0 0 19 0.0 .0 PX Deq: Signal ACK RSG 264 48 0 0 0.0 .0 wait for scn ack 7 0 0 6 0.0 .0 Avg %Time Total Wait wait Waits % DB Event Waits -outs Time (s) (ms) /txn time -------------------------- ------------ ----- ---------- ------- -------- ------ log file sync 162,278 0 5,703 35 0.9 17.0 From: saurabh manroy [mailto:saurabhmanroy@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:17 PM To: CRISLER, JON A Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: log buffer size and log file syncs Because its 11gR1 and RAC, I wonder how much time is *wait for scn ack* contributing to the log file sync wait? There are few bugs on top of 11gR1 related to broadcast on commit scheme of SCN propagation, that you might want to check: Bug 8490879 - Long "log file sync" latencies due to broadcast on commit scheme Bug 7716356 - Long "log file sync" latencies with broadcast on commit scheme in RAC Bug 7610362 - Long "log file sync" waits in RAC with broadcast on commit in RAC Regards, Saurabh Manroy In case you are interested, I have written about log file sync waits in rac here: http://tinyurl.com/89k6jem<http://tinyurl.com/89k6jem> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:56 PM, CRISLER, JON A <JC1706@xxxxxxx<mailto:JC1706@xxxxxxx>> wrote: Interesting thoughts Tanel: in this case of this specific app, the majority of the work is made of up small commits to a handful of tables on a 6 node RAC cluster. I/O times are generally quite good, and with 32 cores per node the CPU and load average is very low. Its 11gR1 - I was wondering if some of the tweaks to put LGWR at "real time" priority that are mentioned for 10g also apply to 11g. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l