Ok i'll bite, whats the solution for the PX Deq and Cache Buffer chains waits? joe original message below> > Bah. On a 24-CPU sun box w/96 GB of memory, one 2 TB database. You should see the PX Deq and cache buffers chains waits!! Completely obscene. It's a train wreck. But, we have to do what the customers demand... Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production SQL> show sga Total System Global Area 7.2311E+10 bytes Fixed Size 835056 bytes Variable Size 2499805184 bytes Database Buffers 6.9810E+10 bytes Redo Buffers 319488 bytes ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------