People, Symptoms vs problems. Latch waits are always symptoms of the real problem. So this particular latch is a symptom because the shadows sending many messages to the background processes. Normally this would be LGWR and/or the DBWR. Dumping the messages (oradebug dump messages and x$message have the answers). Hmmm didn't I do a presentation on this 3-4 years ago during IOUG :) Anjo. Op 6/21/08 3:21 PM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> schreef: > Anjo Kolk's wait event article is still the most complete about documenting > latches. Search for it on Google. > > messages > > There is a pool of message blocks in the SGA. This pool is controlled by the > init.ora parameter _messages. If a process needs a message it will get the > latch, search a linked list for a free message block, unlink this message > block > , put this message on the message queue for the intended process and then > release this latch. The event rdbms ipc message indicates that a process is > waiting for a message to arrive on his message queue. The event rdbms ipc > message reply is used to indicate that a message is expected back by the > sending process. > > Why not compare the numbers in Spotlight and sqlplus? If they're close, they > must be referring to the same event. > > Yong Huang > >> I'm using Quest's Spotlight and wonder if it means "latch: messages". I >> may need to open a ticket with Quest Support to explain the display in >> their GUI. >> >> Not sure if this is the one I'm waiting on. I'll look deeper. >> >> sql> select * from v$event_name where name = 'latch: messages'; >> >> The online Oracle doc referenced by Jared (thanks J!) does not have all >> 889 wait events documented for 10.2.0.4. I doubt I'm gonna find it. :-) > > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l