Hi, Btw, the scheduling latency problem is where where timed_os_statistics comes in handy - it will populate the "OS Wait-cpu (latency) time" statistic in v$sesstat and v$sysstat, so you can actually measure how long time was wasted on waiting in CPU runqueues. There's also an OS_CPU_WAIT_TIME statistic in V$OSSTAT (10g+) which gives you pretty much the same info. -- Regards, Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alberto Dell'Era > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 17:30 > To: qihua wu > Cc: oradbt054@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l > Subject: Re: what's the difference between "CPU I/O Wait" and > "db scatter/sqenecail wait" > > It's not "misleading" as far as you know how it works; "db > file sequential/scattered read" wait time is the time elapsed > from the instant Oracle noticed the buffer was not in the > buffer cache, and the instant it could resume processing -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l