Hello list, I'm observing quite a lot of similiar entries in a 10046 (level 8) trace file created on a 8.1.7.4 running under AIX: INSERT INTO verguetung ( verg_at, verg_basis, verg_basis2, verg_eb, verg_eb2, verg_f_ksa, verg_f_wae, verg_kto, verg_my, verg_oa, verg_s_, verg_sort, verg_splitting, verg_vnr, verg_bem ) VALUES ( :1, :2, :3, :4, :5, :6, :7, :8, :9, :10, :11, :12, :13, :14, :15 ) call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.02 0.19 0 7 0 0 Execute 1 0.09 5.85 1 4 9 1 Fetch 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 2 0.11 6.04 1 11 9 1 Misses in library cache during parse: 1 Optimizer goal: RULE Parsing user id: 41 Elapsed times include waiting on following events: Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited ---------------------------------------- Waited ---------- ------------ single-task message 2 5.19 6.05 SQL*Net message from client 3 0.01 0.01 SQL*Net message to client 1 0.00 0.00 **************************************************************************** **** There is one primary key index, two other indexes (not unique) and a context index on the column verg_bem. Are there any changes to find out what is causing the system to spend 6 seconds in the single-task message? Thx in advance, Martin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l