On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Stefan Knecht wrote: > What's the size of your log_buffer and the size of your redo log files ? Logs are 300MB. During the time the application is running the logs are switching every 7 to 10 minutes. NAME TYPE VALUE log_buffer integer 1572864 log_checkpoint_interval integer 0 log_checkpoint_timeout integer 1800 > Do you have any underscore parameters set ? no, all generic. I noticed that there are 6 groups, 1,2,3 on disk1 and 4,5,6 on disk2 (shortened for brevity). I'm beginning to think that part of the delays are due to group 2 being written to before 1 is finished, then getting backed up even more as group 3 is being written to while group 2 is still getting flushed and group 1 is still behind as well. I haven't tried it but i'm wondering if I should rearrange the groups so that each group would write to a different set of disks on each switch. I have some doubts that this is the ultimate fix but it wouldn't be extremely difficult to change and try. Thanks! -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l