When this is happening what are the top wait events from the AWR report. If you have not enabled awr stats collection do that at a 10-15 min frequency. exec dbms_workload_repository.modify_snapshot_settings(retention=>10080, interval=> 10); /* for 10 min snapshots */ If you have problem(slowness) at say at 12.03 AM, take a AWR report from 12.00 and 12:10 and see what the top 5 waits, compare with good timing waits, that may show some light on further debugging. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steiner, Randy Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:50 AM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: query delay I am running 10gr2 on 4 blades, everything is running much faster than on the old server ......except; Periodically simple queries will take between 1 - 2 minutes. Simple as in SELECT * FROM small_table. This delay does not happen all the time. I do not think this is an index issue. I think this is a RAC wait issue. I will occasionally (maybe once a day) get some of the following: Metrics "Global Cache Blocks Lost" is at 25 Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 57.65708 for event class "Cluster" Can anyone think of a way to investigate this? Thanks Randy