Just to add.. on the example (photo) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oL5_-FgDcjs/UM_yHxBiquI/AAAAAAAABxo/4GR4QFGDhn4/s2048/threadsVScores.png the narration of the graph would be like this: On the HTonTurboOn test case.. the x axis 14 saturated CPUs has y axis value of about 100,000 LIOs/Elap which means on the workload level the LIOs/sec range is about 14 x 100,000 = 1400000 but at this point I'm consuming part of my response time on CPU wait (run queue) for 1.2secs per execution (from 2.76 total elapsed.. not shown on graph) -- Karl Arao karlarao.wordpress.com karlarao.tiddlyspot.com twitter.com/karlarao -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l