Hi everyone, I hope someone can shed some light on this. Here is the situation: Oracle Release 9.2.0.2.0 on Sun Solaris 5.8. Tablespaces are LMT. Truncates are taking exceptionally long. Today I was truncating a table after inserting 178301 rows (which took ~26 seconds) and it took over 2 minutes to truncate. While I was waiting for the truncate to finish I was looking at v$session_wait and saw repeated "db file parallel write" all with a p1 value of 204. However, the sql trace does not show any "db file parallel write"s but instead more than 2 minutes of "rdbms ipc reply", see below from the tkprof output: Elapsed times include waiting on following events: Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited ---------------------------------------- Waited ---------- ------------ SQL*Net message to client 3 0.00 0.00 SQL*Net message from client 3 35.80 67.42 SQL*Net break/reset to client 1 0.00 0.00 rdbms ipc reply 71 2.00 141.16 db file sequential read 3 0.00 0.00 local write wait 1 0.08 0.08 log file sync 1 0.03 0.03 And this is a section of the raw trace following the truncate: PARSING IN CURSOR #1 len=30 dep=0 uid=23 oct=85 lid=23 tim=2284767565029 hv=322251856 ad='bf5aadd8' truncate table wb_PROJ_RES_TMP END OF STMT PARSE #1:c=40000,e=41343,p=0,cr=0,cu=1,mis=1,r=0,dep=0,og=4,tim=2284767565007 BINDS #1: ===================== PARSING IN CURSOR #2 len=105 dep=1 uid=0 oct=3 lid=0 tim=2284767565771 hv=3350194674 ad='ba716130' select log, sysdate, sysdate+1/86400, flag from sys.mlog$ where mowner = :1 and master = :2 for update END OF STMT PARSE #2:c=0,e=170,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767565764 BINDS #2: bind 0: dty=1 mxl=32(06) mal=00 scl=00 pre=00 oacflg=18 oacfl2=1 size=32 offset=0 bfp=ffffffff7c8698e8 bln=32 avl=06 flg=05 value="SYSADM" bind 1: dty=1 mxl=32(15) mal=00 scl=00 pre=00 oacflg=18 oacfl2=1 size=32 offset=0 bfp=ffffffff7c8698b0 bln=32 avl=15 flg=05 value="WB_PROJ_RES_TMP" EXEC #2:c=0,e=636,p=0,cr=1,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767566743 FETCH #2:c=0,e=7,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767566833 STAT #2 id=1 cnt=0 pid=0 pos=1 obj=0 op='FOR UPDATE (cr=0 r=0 w=0 time=2 us)' STAT #2 id=2 cnt=0 pid=1 pos=1 obj=170 op='TABLE ACCESS CLUSTER MLOG$ (cr=1 r=0 w=0 time=45 us)' STAT #2 id=3 cnt=0 pid=2 pos=1 obj=169 op='INDEX UNIQUE SCAN I_MLOG# (cr=1 r=0 w=0 time=35 us)' ===================== PARSING IN CURSOR #2 len=129 dep=1 uid=0 oct=3 lid=0 tim=2284767568748 hv=429969799 ad='bdeae2b8' select n.intcol# from ntab$ n, col$ c where n.obj#=:1 and c.obj#=:1 and c.intcol#=n.intcol# and bitand(c.property, 32768)!=32768 END OF STMT PARSE #2:c=0,e=128,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767568741 BINDS #2: bind 0: dty=2 mxl=22(22) mal=00 scl=00 pre=00 oacflg=08 oacfl2=1 size=24 offset=0 bfp=ffffffff7c8689b8 bln=22 avl=04 flg=05 value=533312 bind 1: (No oacdef for this bind) EXEC #2:c=0,e=316,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767569331 FETCH #2:c=0,e=1783,p=0,cr=140,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767571179 STAT #2 id=1 cnt=0 pid=0 pos=1 obj=0 op='NESTED LOOPS (cr=140 r=0 w=0 time=1780 us)' STAT #2 id=2 cnt=134 pid=1 pos=1 obj=21 op='TABLE ACCESS CLUSTER COL$ (cr=138 r=0 w=0 time=1206 us)' STAT #2 id=3 cnt=1 pid=2 pos=1 obj=3 op='INDEX UNIQUE SCAN I_OBJ# (cr=2 r=0 w=0 time=41 us)' STAT #2 id=4 cnt=0 pid=1 pos=2 obj=354 op='INDEX UNIQUE SCAN I_NTAB2 (cr=2 r=0 w=0 time=245 us)' ===================== PARSING IN CURSOR #2 len=116 dep=1 uid=0 oct=3 lid=0 tim=2284767571969 hv=431456802 ad='b8dae190' select o.owner#,o.name,o.namespace,o.remoteowner,o.linkname,o.subname,o.dataobj#,o.flags from obj$ o where o.obj#=:1 END OF STMT PARSE #2:c=0,e=133,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767571962 BINDS #2: bind 0: dty=2 mxl=22(22) mal=00 scl=00 pre=00 oacflg=08 oacfl2=1 size=24 offset=0 bfp=ffffffff7c864cd0 bln=22 avl=04 flg=05 value=533312 EXEC #2:c=0,e=249,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767572541 FETCH #2:c=0,e=80,p=0,cr=3,cu=0,mis=0,r=1,dep=1,og=4,tim=2284767572687 WAIT #1: nam='rdbms ipc reply' ela= 2006563 p1=5 p2=21474836 p3=0 WAIT #1: nam='rdbms ipc reply' ela= 2001840 p1=5 p2=21474834 p3=0 WAIT #1: nam='rdbms ipc reply' ela= 2001801 p1=5 p2=21474832 p3=0 WAIT #1: nam='rdbms ipc reply' ela= 2001828 p1=5 p2=21474830 p3=0 WAIT #1: nam='rdbms ipc reply' ela= 2001836 p1=5 p2=21474828 p3=0 and so on. regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------