Hello all, Latch Sleep breakdown for DB: WEBP1 Instance: webp1 Snaps: 32412 -32413 -> ordered by misses desc Get Spin & Latch Name Requests Misses Sleeps Sleeps 1-= >4 -------------------------- -------------- ----------- ----------- ---------= --- ... cache buffers chains 30,194,375 1,980 133 0/0/0/0/0 ... I am looking at this statspack extract over 20 minutes. I have a very specific question. Given that I have ~2000 misses and 133 sleeps, howcome I dont have anything in spins and sleeps[1-4] ? Are the cache buffer chains special, i.e. there is no spinning to acquire them ? And if there are sleeps, last column is supposed to be 4 or more, yet it is still zero? Looking in v$latch: ADDR=095000D3E0 LATCH#=0998 LEVEL#=091 NAME=09cache buffers chains GETS=09113996341015 MISSES=09286248205 SLEEPS=092787346 IMMEDIATE_GETS=093233325716 IMMEDIATE_MISSES=0912384650 WAITERS_WOKEN=090 WAITS_HOLDING_LATCH=092933754 SPIN_GETS=090 SLEEP1=090 SLEEP2=090 SLEEP3=090 SLEEP4=090 SLEEP5=090 SLEEP6=090 SLEEP7=090 SLEEP8=090 SLEEP9=090 SLEEP10=090 SLEEP11=090 WAIT_TIME=090 You can see there's a large number of gets/misses but NONE in spin_gets and sleeps 1-4, why is that ? --=20 Christo Kutrovsky Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l