hi: I noticed that after upgraded from 10203 to 10204, the number of waits of parallel write got increased a lot. We are using lgwr async IO (_lgwr_async_io=true and disk_asynch_io=true). OS is Solaris 10. SNAP_TIME TOTAL_WAITS TIME_WAITED ----------------- ----------- ----------- 20100425 00:00:00 1193 20 20100426 00:00:00 1187 19 20100427 00:00:00 83753743 3122627 -- after upgraded from 10203 to 10204 20100428 00:00:00 94783396 3353594 20100429 00:00:00 96792543 3320591 20100430 00:00:00 98197875 3245199 20100501 00:00:00 98144618 3162137 I checked several databases, all of them had the same behavior. I tried to find some docs to explain this on metalink, but I didn't find anything. Did anybody also have such change before? What's the reason behind this? And I'm curious what the result is if _lgwr_async_io is false. Thanks in advance. -- Eagle Fan (www.dbafan.com)