On Feb 14, 2008 11:21 AM, Gerald Cunningham < gcunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is a physical Data Guard implementation with 1 primary / 1 standby. > Oracle 9.2.0.8 64-bit on Solaris. > > From the alert log, it appears that Oracle is waiting until the redo > information has been written to the standby site > before it switches the primary's redo logs. > > log_archive_dest_3 was set to mandatory, so I tried setting it to optional > (see line "c" below). This didn't appear to > have any effect. Here is an excerpt of my primary alert log: > > Re the logfile sync waits, see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/statspack_01.html You may be hitting a 9.x bug that obscures the cause of the wait. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist