The REDO processing not dependent on the commit of data. You just need more or bigger online redo logs to handle the level of activity. UNDO is made available for reuse on commit. The topics of REDO and UNDO are introduced in the Concepts manual and more detail on the management of each exists in the DBA Administration manual. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eriovaldo Andrietta Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 1:09 PM To: ORACLE-L Subject: log file switch - checkpoint incomplete and db file sequential Hello, I have a session that is running for around 3 hours (for 1200.000 lines) and just 1 commit. And now events I can see are : log file switch - checkpoint incomplete db file sequential, free buffer waits I got in the net, the following explanation for it : The log file switch - checkpoint incomplete event tells you that Oracle wants to reuse a redo log file, but the current checkpoint position is still in that log file. This results in redo generation being stopped until the log switch is done. Obviously not good! My doubt is: my session will return for COMMIT ? Oracle will release the redo ? Or must I abort it and control the number of COMMIT´s by code ? Regards Eriovaldo