Mladen, "WRAPPED" is nothing serious if it's wrapped with the 10g+ wrapper. Google will lead you to some unwrappers if you want to (and checked the EULA first). As your application might not use the full qualified sys.DBMS_LOCK.* you can remove it's public synonym, create your own DBMS_LOCK package in another schema and create the public synonym. Not a very "nice" way and you have to do your package carefully to avoid side-effects, but it can be a solution at the end. Martin On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Mladen Gogala <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The wait events look like this: > > > > > > > *Event Waits Time (s) > (ms) Time ----------------------------------------- ------------ > ----------- ------ ------ PL/SQL lock > timer 60 3,601 60012 52.0 CPU > time 3,233 > 46.7 db file sequential read 97,875 > 75 1 1.1 control file sequential read > 13,019 5 0 .1 log file parallel > write 1,344 4 3 * > > Obviously, the application is using DBMS_LOCK. Is there anything that can > be done to make it cheaper? Not only > is the whole thing horribly slow, it also devours vast amounts of CPU. I > cannot go into the source, it's a 3rd party > application and someone discovered the keyword "WRAPPED". I've been > looking for a hidden instance parameter > which would change the DBMS_LOCK behavior and make it cheaper. Any ideas? > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBAhttp://mgogala.freehostia.com > >