Hello, We are getting 100% waits for "Others' event class for instance 1 and instance 2 at times in RAC 11.2.0.2.3, 7 nodes environment (Redhat Linux 5). The ADDM report showing these findings; (see below); The questions are: *1- How to identify the root cause of these "other" waits and fix them?* *2- How to find the default threshold set for these metrics to see it makes sense to increase the threshold?* * * * * Finding 3: Unusual "Other" Wait Event Impact is 0 active sessions, 4.92% of total activity. ------------------------------------------------ ----- Wait event "IPC send completion sync" in wait class "Other" was consuming significant database time. Recommendation 1: Application Analysis Estimated benefit is 0 active sessions, 4.92% of total activity. ------------------------------------- --------------------------- Action Investigate the cause for high "IPC send completion sync" waits. Refer to Oracle's "Database Reference" for the description of this wait event. Symptoms That Led to the Finding: --------------------------------- Wait class "Other" was consuming significant database time. Impact is .02 active sessions, 56.98% of total activity. Finding 4: Unusual "Other" Wait Event Impact is 0 active sessions, 4.02% of total activity. -------------------------------------------- --------- Wait event "enq: PS - contention" in wait class "Other" was consuming significant database time. Recommendation 1: Application Analysis Estimated benefit is 0 active sessions, 4.02% of total activity. ------------------------------------- --------------------------- Action Investigate the cause for high "enq: PS - contention" waits. Refer to Oracle's "Database Reference" for the description of this wait event. Symptoms That Led to the Finding: --------------------------------- Wait class "Other" was consuming significant da tabase time. Impact is .02 active sessions, 56.98% of total activity. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l