Could maybe be a by product of when transactions completed. Remember that the recording is made when the transaction completes...so timing wise a long running transaction could have just completed when you began the snap? ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of amonte Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:35 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: wait time is huge compared with cpu time Hi I have a HP-UX Server running Oracle 8.1.7.4, there are 6 CPUs. I have a statspack report which shows this (2 hours interval) Snap Id Snap Time Sessions ------- ------------------ -------- Begin Snap: 143 20-Jul-06 02:31:02 453 End Snap: 167 20-Jul-06 04:31:06 453 Elapsed: 120.07 (mins) Top 5 Wait Events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wait % Total Event Waits Time (cs) Wt Time -------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------ ------- latch free 3,573,965 6,945,555 99.25 log file sync 122,691 30,316 .43 log file parallel write 146,604 18,685 .27 SQL*Net more data to client 522,539 1,762 .03 db file sequential read 10,923 534 .01 Statistic Total per Second per Trans --------------------------------- ---------------- ------------ ------------ CPU used by this session 2,990,059 415.1 27.6 CPU used when call started 2,423,510 336.4 22.4 I was wondering how can we get over 69000 seconds waits in 2 hours with 6 CPUs? That is much larger than 3600seconds * 6CPUs * 2hours TIA Alex