Kevin, I am not sure what your email is answering (I am missing the quoted question) but wouldn't it be better in 10g to test with "commit batch nowait" rather then turning of logging with the underscore parameter ?
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PS the waits are all IO related - log buffer , log file sync etc
... are you absolutely sure the I/O component of these waits is what is actually slow. You know there is more to the anatomy of a log file sync and log buffer wait than I/O right? A process get posted though the post/wait mechanism (port dependent) and THEN it comes out of the wait. In short, there is IPC wrapped around the LGWR loop. I wonder if there is something in the 10gR2 post/wait driver that is busted? Quite possible. How do they compare with _logging_disable=TRUE? When this is set there is still LGWR posting and lfs waits, but LGWR doesn't actually write to the log.
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