Ankur, As Igor (igor.polishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:igor.polishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ) pointed out in his post, he experienced this problem as did we at our site due to a slow WAN. Oracle Support directed us to this parameter. At the time we were on 9205, but have since upgraded to 9207. After upgrading, we never unset the _LOG_ARCHIVE_CALLOUT='LOCAL_FIRST=TRUE' hidden parameter, but it doesn't appear to be a problem. I only point this out because when I reread the Metalink note, 260040.1, it looks like Oracle has changed this to the default behavior in since 9207. Cheers, David Taft -----Original Message----- From: igor.polishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:igor.polishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:30 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: arch slow and standby. Ankur, On 9i, when a network connection is not dead but just slow, you may have a problem. I've experienced problems with a live database. It actually hanged under heavy load. I may not remember exact details, but it was definitely a problem because archiver waited until remote archive would be created. To fix this situation, look at hidden parameter _log_archive_callout and set it to 'LOCAL_FIRST=TRUE'. If you make a search on metalink, you'll find an article describing exactly mentioned above behavior and recommending the mention parameter setup. I did not have a chance to really test it on a slow network myself yet.