Historically the combination of CF waits and HW waits has been linked to direct path loads and nologging activity - particularly relating to LOBs. Does that observation tie in with what your system is doing ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/all_postings Author: Oracle Core (Apress 2011) http://www.apress.com/9781430239543 ----- Original Message ----- From: "MiRaL" <miralfaldu@xxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:24 AM Subject: enq:CF contention | Hi, | I need help on resolving wait events on our AIX 6.1 box, Oracle 10.2.0.5 DB | with non-RAC. | | We are seeing lot of CF contention, HW contention and control file parallel | write waits in the AWR report, can anyone please help on it. | | Below is top 5 waits for AWR of 90 mins, DB time 900 mins. | -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l