Hi Mark, yes, you are right in case of "Elapsed Time" and "DB CPU", but i am talking about "background elapsed time" and "background CPU time" in the "Time Model Statistics". I already explained this in more detail in my previous reply to Phil: //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Oracle-AWR-Time-Model-Statistics-background-elapsed-time-background-cpu-time,1 AWR Elapsed Time ≈ 3600 seconds Amount of CPUs = 160 background cpu time ≈ 47342 seconds background elapsed time ≈ 33676 seconds If your theory for "background elapsed time" would be true as well, the max background elapsed time would also be round about 3600 seconds, but in my case it is 33676 seconds. The definition for "background elapsed time" and "background CPU time" is different as the documentation states as well. Thank you. Best Regards Stefan Koehler Freelance Oracle performance consultant and researcher Homepage: http://www.soocs.de Twitter: @OracleSK > MARK BRINSMEAD <mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 13. März 2015 um 17:32 > geschrieben: > > Stefan, > You seem to be assuming only 1 CPU. > > On a system with 10 CPUs, you can accumulate 10 seconds of CPU in only 1 > second of elapsed time. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l