On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM, David Fitzjarrell <oratune@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > This is an idle wait and is recorded for the job queue background > processes, not the foreground user processes. > > When a job queue process is between jobs this wait timer starts. If there > are no more jobs to run this wait increases. > > These can of course be eliminated like so: alter system set job_queue_processes=0; ;) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com