Get rid of the histograms or change the CURSOR_SHARING away from SIMILAR (to FORCE for example if you need it). There's a bug which number I don't remember where CURSOR_SHARING = SIMILAR combined with histograms will cause a huge amount of new child cursors to be generated. And the bad thing is, not even the V$SQL_SHARED_CURSOR shows what's wrong in 10g, in 11g they've added a new HASH_MATCH_FAILED condition for that. I personally don't like cursor_sharing=*similar* anyway and also I don't like having histograms being created without my knowledge, so you should change your default METHOD_OPT from from AUTO to REPEAT, that way Oracle only refreshes these histograms which already have been created (by you) and doesn't create new ones based on its "clever" logic: SQL> select dbms_stats.get_param('METHOD_OPT') from dual; DBMS_STATS.GET_PARAM('METHOD_OPT') ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE *AUTO **<<--- better to set this to REPEAT* Of course first you need to manually get rid of the histograms that were automatically created by the AUTO option... -- Tanel Poder http://tech.e2sn.com > > > Greetings. When I check the wait events recently for few days > Library Cache and Share Pool wait got the very huge value. > > > > When i check the V$SQLAREA few sql have very huge versions more than > 3000. > > > > My Database version is 10g Rel2 10.2.0.4 on Redhat Linux AS4 with > update 4. > > > > CURSOR_SHARING set to SIMILAR and OPTIMIZER_MODE=CHOOSE. > > > > This is happening only recently and is it related to Automatic > Statistics done on 10g Rel 2. > > > > Please let me know how to check and avoid it. > > > > Regards > > Mudhalvan M.M > > >