KG/All, >see this during (rarely) Truncating a large table while most of the >buffers of that table in cache. During TRUNCATEs the session has to a >local checkpoint and during this process, the session may wait for >'local write' wait. We are seeing a number of these waits on a largish Oracle Applications database that has frequent TRUNCATEs some 'temporary' tables that are used for Inventory's ATP (Available-To-Promise) processes. Makes sense! John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) Listen to great, commercial-free christian music 24x7x365 at http://www.klove.com ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l