Did you try to turn on tracing for the 2 different sessions to see what the hold up is? Finn On 4/24/08, Martin Klier <usn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Denny, > > > Denny Koovakattu schrieb: > > > > Could it be that the execution plans are the same but work_area_policy > > is set > > to AUTO and the dedicated server sessions don't have sufficient memory > > and the > > shared server processes are using sort_area_size? > How can I check that? > > I did set work_area_policy to manual - no change. > I did set alter session sort_area_size=262144 for ded and shared tests > as well - no change. > > Any idea is greatly appreciated. > Thanks > usn > -- > Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk > www.usn-it.de > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >