All, I appreciate if you could shed some light on which direction to go. I have Solaris non-rac database running with 26GB SGA ( PDB-NONRAC(Solaris)) and 3 node RAC database in Linux with 100GB SGA ( PDB-RAC ) . One of our program runs 3 times slower on RAC vs Soalris. Same SQL code , same plan, and same oracle version etc. Solaris has file system with Veritas LVM and Linux has ASM. Here is the output of 10046: SQL ID: 9txtqr9tdkcbs Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited ---------------------------------------- Waited ---------- ------------ PDB-NONRAC(Solaris) db file sequential read 413468 0.32 234.99 PDB-RAC(LINUX) db file sequential read 434173 0.50 2138.24 Is it Veritas's LVM caching playing the role here vs no-caching in ASM? Thank you, Sudhakar G Pillai -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l