On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Christian Antognini wrote: > 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 hi - did that already - once the big chunk of processing starts there are no XCTENDs until near the very end. That is what is puzzling - I can't see performance problems writing to the disks and I don't see lots of XCTENDs... I do not know if XCTEND is issued when a cursor commits and the other cursors are still open doing work... Thanks! -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l