Thank you, I'll study this in an hour ot so. If anyone else responds today, FYI, After today, I might not be able to respond until Monday. Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 ________________________________ From: Dion Cho [mailto:ukja.dion@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:14 PM To: Patterson, Joel Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ksuosstats global area Hi, Joel. That would mean that it isn't waiting for the shared latch acquisition, but it did wait for a short time. After that short waiting, the session is busy doing something thus burning CPU. V$SESSION_WAIT.STATE would show 'WAITED SHORT TIME' or 'WAITED UNKNOWN TIME' if my assumption servers it right. You can try PROCESSSTATE dump and/or CALLSTACK dump to find out what the session is really doing. ================================ Dion Cho - Oracle Performance Storyteller http://dioncho.wordpress.com (english) http://ukja.tistory.com (korean) http://sites.google.com/site/otpack (tpack) ================================ On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM, <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: I've been using DBOptimizer and using Tanel Poders scripts. SID 0 is using a lot of CPU (in a particular test case). If the latch was named 'shared pool latch' I'd have an explanation, but LatchProfX is revealing that latch 'ksuosstats global area' is at the top and 'shared pool latch' is not listed. I went to MOS and searched, as well as Google, and ksuosstats normally shows up as part of a list of latches and the discussion is normally centered around another issue. Can anyone let me know what this might be all about? Is it part of the shared pool, and therefore part of the initialization process normally associated with SID 0? (thanks Tanel). Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546