HEH. Good catch Sayan. I should RTFM it seems LOL Yes it was OraSRP, I didn't realize he was extrapolating that out that way. I thought it was coming straight from the trc file and should have double checked. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Sayan Sergeevich Malakshinov [mailto:malakshinovss@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:49 AM To: Taylor Christopher - Nashville Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: SQL*Net message from Client vs SQL*Net message from Client [idle] I think you need to specify that it was output of OraSRP (i googled it by "Session Flat Profile"). From readme of this tool (http://www.oracledba.ru/orasrp/README.html): There are some wait events called 'idle wait events' (or in terms of 10g and above, events from class 'Idle events'). It's such events like 'SQL*Net message from client' or 'SQL*Net message from dblink'. But in terms of OraSRP they are not always 'idle'. They are 'idle' when they happens 'between-call'. For example, the following 'SQL*Net message from client' is considered 'idle': Best regards, Sayan Malakshinov -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l