Sorry, my answer was about how to find witch processes are causing the high
IO.
It's now that I read that you want to know "why oracle is causing this high
WIO" ..., and it's a long story :)
Read Cary Millsap's How to Activate Extended SQL Trace
(http://www.hotsos.com/e-library/abstract.php?id=29) and activate the
extended sql trace for the processes you find with the command from the
previous mail(prstat -m).
HTH Dimitre Radoulov
/app/oracle$ prstat -m PID USERNAME USR SYS TRP TFL DFL LCK SLP LAT VCX ICX SCL SIG PROCESS/NLWP 11603 oracle 56 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 39 1.3 1K 73 1K 0 oracle/1 24601 oracle 11 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 86 0.0 160 17 6K 0 oracle/1 24599 oracle 6.2 4.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 90 0.0 138 5 5K 0 oracle/1
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