How did the load test do when you ran it from just one instance started with CLUSTER_DATABASE=FALSE? On 7/31/2012 12:09 PM, Hameed, Amir wrote: > > Thank you Tim and Gaja for your feedback. It is much appreciated. > Here is some more information and the reasoning behind my mentioning of > FREELSITS and FREELIST GROUPS. Based on the top waits in the AWR report, > I queries DBA_HIST_ACTIVE_SESS_HISTORY and was able to identified > statements that were waiting on these events. There are a total of 12-14 > statements that account for around 90-95% of these waits. These > statements are SELECT FOR UPDATE, UPDATE, DELETE AND INSERT. These > include two INSERT statements and one of them is parallelized with over > twenty sessions inserting into it in parallel. This was the primary > reason for looking into FREELISTS and FREELIST GROUPS for a few tables > that were involved in the INSERT statements. As I had mentioned in my > previous note, this system was upgraded from 11.0.3 to 11.5.x several > years ago and is therefore not configured with ASSM. Additionally, it is > my observation that prior to EBS 11i, Oracle did not have a standard on > defining FREELIST GROUPS on the base Oracle tables and most of the > tables that I have looked at have these values set to 1. Starting with > 11i fresh installs (installers prior to 11.5.10), tables started to get > created with FLG of 4; at least this is what I have observed. With > 11.5.10.2 installers, Oracle uses ASSM. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l