SQL*Net message from client "Generally, this means the session is sitting idle" From the book Oracle Wait Interface : A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning Shee, Deshpande and Gopalakrishnan p65. This is an excellent book by the way This means that oracle is waiting for the client to issue a command. Also from above ""the database performance is not degraded by high wait times for this event" What query did you run to get "Elapsed times include waiting on following events:" if you're looking at your sessions stats then perhaps it was 120 seconds between you logging on and running that query. Neil -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l