Am I correct in assuming this is the findings of your issue? http://afatkulin.blogspot.com/2010/06/row-cache-objects-latch-contention.html On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Christo Kutrovsky <kutrovsky.oracle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am having a weird issue on Oracle 11.2 64 bit SPARC with T2+ CPUs. > > Occasionally my loading process (bulk insert statement) will have a large > number of consecutive waits (as reported by ASH) of "latch: row cache > objects". The statement is not been reparsed, and ASH reports > "IN_SQL_EXECUTION". > > I do have "blocked by" information, and that is pointing to a parallel merge > statement been executed at the same time. The blockee also shows "N" for all > "IN_xx" columns in ASH. The > > Does anyone know how to get more information for which objects from the > rowcache I am contending, and why at all? > > I am suspecting it's the parallel merge that is affecting the system > globally, as a lot of queries just "don't run" during these short freezes. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l