Yes, ASM is used as part of the Grid (CRS) stack. it's also 11.2.0.1 (doesn't know the PSUs/one-offs by heart, sorry). Am 07.12.2010 um 10:02 schrieb Dion Cho: > Just for clarity, do you use ASM for this database? > ... > 2010/12/7 Martin Berger <martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi, > > can anyone please hint me to some information about > kfk: async disk IO ? > > A little query on v$sessions gave me > USERNAME EVENT > COUNT(*) > ------------------------------ > -------------------------------------------------- ---------- > APPS ges message buffer allocation > 98 > APPS CSS operation: action > 2 > APPS Streams AQ: waiting for messages in the queue > 9 > SYS SQL*Net message to client > 1 > APPS SQL*Net message from client > 147 > APPS kfk: async disk IO > 1646 > > as kfk: async disk IO is the bigest contributor, I'd like to investigate a > little bit. > > for the records: 11.2.0.1 - 2 node RAC - RedHat 5.4 Linux 64-bit. (yes, it's > EBS - but don't ask me the exact pach level, please - I assume 11.5.10???)