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We have an update statement that runs in 3 minutes with no trace or a level 1 trace, but ran for 2 hours and we killed it with a level 12 trace.
we got 20,000 'direct path read temp ' waits, but ONLY with a level 12 trace and ONLY on this update. We have not tested it in multiple environments. This is on 10.2 on solaris.
We didn't see this wait in v$active_session_history when we do not have a level 12 trace going. I did not see anything about this on metalink. Does this strike you as one of those bugs where its one thing in one version in one environment, etc...? I have gotten those occasionally?
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