Andrew, Looks like you might be running the database on UltraSparc T1, T2 or T3 kind of processors. They are notoriously slow for databases. Regards, Vishal Gupta http://www.vishalgupta.com ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Andrew Kerber Sent: Tue 26/04/2011 15:36 To: ORACLE-L???? Subject: catupgrd run time, 11gr2 I am preparing for our upgrade from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.2. However, the catupgrd is running ~ 3.5 hours. It doesnt appear to stop on anything in particular, so I am dubious about getting it to go faster. However, I thought I would ask, does 3.5 hours seem like a reasonable run time? Its a sun sparc system, 64 bit with 32 cpus and 128G RAM. Does anyone have any good methods for tuning the process? -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'