Hi Karl here is the data *Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory (G) ~~~~ ---------------- ---------------------- ----- ----- ------- ------------ c2xxxprod AIX-Based Systems (64- 16 4 0 67.0 Snapshot Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess Comment ~~~~~~~~ ---------- ------------------ -------- --------- ------------------ Begin Snap: 8696 13-Nov-12 11:00:02 236 4.0 End Snap: 8697 13-Nov-12 12:00:03 237 4.1 Elapsed: 60.02 (mins) Av Act Sess: 6.4 DB time: 384.99 (mins) DB CPU: 142.31 (mins) Top 5 Timed Events Avg %Total ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wait Call Event Waits Time (s) (ms) Time ----------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- ------ ------ CPU time 8,464 51.9 PL/SQL lock timer 60 3,600 60005 22.1 log file sync 210,625 2,258 11 13.8 log file parallel write 239,374 631 3 3.9 enq: UL - contention 27,018 466 17 2.9 Time Model System Stats DB/Inst: YYY/YYY Snaps: 8696-8697 -> Ordered by % of DB time desc, Statistic name Statistic Time (s) % DB time ----------------------------------- -------------------- --------- sql execute elapsed time 20,342.6 ######## DB CPU 8,538.6 ######## PL/SQL execution elapsed time 2,012.8 ######## parse time elapsed 95.8 ######## hard parse elapsed time 25.3 ######## sequence load elapsed time 16.5 ######## connection management call elapsed 8.9 ######## repeated bind elapsed time 4.1 ######## hard parse (sharing criteria) elaps 1.8 ######## PL/SQL compilation elapsed time 0.2 ######## Java execution elapsed time 0.1 ######## hard parse (bind mismatch) elapsed 0.0 ######## failed parse elapsed time 0.0 ######## DB time 23,099.5 background elapsed time 887.0 background cpu time 43.3* TIA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l