Deepak, Is it a RAC database ? Is it possible for you to run awr report for the time of the load. Curious to see the top 5 events portion. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deepak Sharma Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:43 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: latch: cache buffers chains causing delays We have an application that has, since last weekend, started getting a lot of 'latch: cache buffers chains' wait event. From 10046 trace (level 12), we have found the following SQL (table names changed), that has the most elapsed time. This application spawns 7 threads simultaneously, and each thread processes 1 partition of the table (eg: T06 below), based on a thread id. Why should there be a wait for the above event even though the table is partitioned and each thread accesses a different set of data? This issue has caused our loads to get delayed since last 5-6 days. BTW, it's 10.1.0.4 SELECT * FROM TableA_raw WHERE A_key IN ( SELECT A_key FROM TableA_unique_list PARTITION(T06) WHERE processed_flag = :b1 AND thread_id = :b2 ) call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 Execute 1 0.02 0.01 0 0 0 0 Fetch 1 829.89 839.99 0 4002133 0 195 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 3 829.91 840.01 0 4002133 0 195 Misses in library cache during parse: 1 Misses in library cache during execute: 1 Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS Parsing user id: 85 (recursive depth: 2) Elapsed times include waiting on following events: Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited ---------------------------------------- Waited ---------- ------------ latch: cache buffers chains 134 0.01 0.07 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l