Good day, list, What would cause an RMAN catalog operation to last a relatively eternal 128 seconds? The stats I have collected so far: - Sun T5440 - 256 virtual processors at 1.414MHz - 128gb ram (76gb swap - I know... I didn't set it up) - 65 databases - Truss shows a lot of parking and sleeping, but not much else. - Trace event 10046 is similarly not giving me much help. - Running an RMAN 10.2.0.2 Duplicate command on a database with 164 datafiles. - Controlfile is 22mb with a keep time of 7 days. As I file a case with Oracle, where else can I look to find the TRUTH of why this is running so slow*? Sysadmins are telling me there are no host bottlenecks evidenced by OS tools. Fortunately, this is not a rush. At this point, I am more curious than anything else, and I am concerned that this significant slowdown is symptomatic of a deeper issue. So, no guessing allowed (*nod to Alex Gorbachev*). I am asking you all to help me find what the real problem is. =) *slow: means I ran this operation on different databases (same host) three times in the past two days, not to mention countless times prior to that. I expect catalog operations to be fairly quick, fast enough that cataloging a list of files usually scrolls off the screen before I can read them all. -- Charles Schultz