By popular demand: The note I mentioned in the summary was metalink note 199273.1 :) Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Chandra Pabba [mailto:Chandra.Pabba@xxxxxxxx] Sent: vrijdag 6 november 2009 16:49 To: D'Hooge Freek Subject: RE: what could cause a high elap value for the exec system call (for a select statement)? Hi Freek, Thanks for sharing your discoveries. Will it be possible to share the ML Note ID which Allen shared with you. I seem to be seeing something similar with one of the SQL statement I am working on... Thanks Chandra -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l