List, Any pointers on how to reduce contention on CBC latch ? I am seeing sessions waiting on multiple hladdr's too. Recreate tables with Hi-pctfree helped but need much more fine-tuning. (app team has been doing their bit on reducing logical reads) How to surely be able to tell the precise fix is (from where it is waited on) (increasing hash buckets, moving tables to smaller blocksizes ) 10.1.0.4 (2Node) / RH 3.0. NoWait Waiter Latch Name Where Misses Sleeps Sleeps ------------------------ -------------------------- ------- ---------- -------- cache buffer handles kcbzfs 0 8 6 cache buffers chains kcbgtcr: kslbegin excl 0 91,563 67,822 cache buffers chains kcbgtcr: fast path 0 57,384 76,694 cache buffers chains kcbrls: kslbegin 0 25,944 31,763 cache buffers chains kcbchg: kslbegin: bufs not 0 942 35 cache buffers chains kcbxbh 0 391 32 cache buffers chains kcbzgb: scan from tail. no 0 101 0 Thanks, Ravi.