Steve: Virtual Circuits are related to MTS/Shared Server and dispatcher acquires couple of virtual circuit related latches and establishes the communication between client process and server process. You can look at the session_wait to findout why the sessions are waiting. I think p2 of the virtual circuit wait gives the reason code . Gopal On 2/15/06, Stephen Andert <andert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am getting reports of a slowness issue, so I ran a STATSPACK report. Ran > it through ORAPERF 75% of the response time is WAIT. 70% of the WAIT time > is virtual circuit status. After a quick search, I can't find anything on > Metalink on what the cause or possible solutions are. Any ideas? > > -- > Stephen Andert > http://spaces.msn.com/members/andert-news > -- Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l