That's two votes for spinning to acquire latches...I'm beginning to feel we're onto something here. This may be a case in which observing latch spin_counts would be worthwhile. Thanks, John! PB --- John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe what you are seeing is due to this: A 'latch free' wait > does not > register /unless and until/ the process requesting the latch > 'sleeps', i.e. > while it is spinning a Wait event is not registered. However, at this > time, > spinning consumes CPU without a context switch. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------