Hello Rajiv, Yes, we use ASSM. I think I'll have to wait for the situation to recur for the 10045 trace. I can provide the AWR for the 30min interval when this was happening, if that helps. Thank you, - Ravi On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Rajeev Prabhakar <rprabha01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Ravi, > > Are you using ASSM (auto OR manual) ? Can you take a 10046 > trace for one of those sessions which is waitng on the "enq: HW - > contention" and tell us about the kind of blocks that are showing/ > experiencing these kinds of waits and any other observations that > you can make from those traces ? > > -Rajeev > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ravi Gaur <ravigaur1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > We have a production database running on RAC (4-node) (10.2.0.3 on > Solaris > > 10) and I'm noticing a lot of waits on "enq: HW - contention". Doing a > bit > > of researching tells me that it is related to HWM extensions (concurrent > > inserts). We have no control on the application so I wonder what could > be > > done from the database end to tune this up (if anything). Here's what I > see > > from the AWR during the time it showed up -- > > > > Top 5 Timed Events > > EventWaitsTime(s)Avg Wait(ms)% Total Call TimeWait Class > > CPU time 7,148 43.5 > > enq: HW - contention67,0345,2637932.0Configuration > > SQL*Net break/reset to client61,0061,504259.2Application > > db file sequential read152,43188565.4User I/O > > gc cr block busy34,315490143.0Cluster > > Any help is deeply appreciated!! > > > > TIA, > > - Ravi Gaur >