>>Can you email me a full statspack? Don't have one now and no issue right now. >>Check v$sql.first_load_time for new SQLs. If you are not flushing sga often. I will when it happens again. >>use this SQL; >>so you are aware of the SQLs waiting on some thing. I have similar SQL...that is how I see all this for many sessions when is happening. WAIT_EVENT/LATCH_NAME ======================== latch free/library cache >>not likely. it should be due to the internal contention. >>how big is your shared pool? I think it might be a bit small? I have found that other than "RELOADS", all of my other library cache Ratio's look good. Chris Marquez Oracle DBA