Thanks for the clarification.
This is by Oak Table member Mario Broodbakker.
When I read the sentence "working as an Oracle performance engineer for HP Windows Integrity Engineering in Redmond, Washington", I automatically ASS_u_ME_d he was working for Micro$haft :) Btw: a Google search on "dm_os_wait_stats" shows a link to another PDF presentation at Oaktable titled "What Larry should have told Bill many years ago" on this same subject from Miracle A/S. -- John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l