Google for Frits Hoogland's multiblock reads slides to get useful extra info about this ... -- *Tanel Poder* Enkitec (The Exadata Experts) Training <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/> | Troubleshooting<http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> | Exadata<http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Oracle-Exadata-Apress/dp/1430233923> | Voicee App <http://voic.ee/> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what's the wait profile for this single session? 90% on CPU or 90% > waiting? (run snapper :) > > if it's a buffered scan (db file scattered reads) then you will do an IO > operation, wait, process on CPU, do another IO operation, wait again etc... > so you'll be wasting a lot of time on waiting for the synchronous IO > operations to complete. So it's about the latency. Easily measurable. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l