Hi > I am trying to uncover the root cause of log file sync waits causing > an application to decrease in performance. 10046 trace shows > hundreds of thousands of lines of log file sync with ela time around > 1000. 1ms by itself isn't so bad but throughout the duration of the > process it becomes a serious problem. In addition to the good advices you already got... For every commit there is a line in the tracefile. You can use a command like the following one to count them: grep "XCTEND rlbk=0" <tracefile> | wc -l HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l