My thought was that the large page size might be contributing to lock 
escalation so that the whole table was getting locked per insert or something, 
but I confess I don't know how derby handles that.

I will dig into some of the locking diagnostics. Thanks!

- DAP

On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Bryan Pendleton wrote:

> David Parker wrote:
>> slowdowns that we have traced to this insert - a single insert taking 
>> several seconds
> 
> That feels more like a locking issue than an I/O issue, to me.
> 
> Perhaps you have some sort of rarely-run query which, when it runs,
> scans and processes the entire table, thus locking the table and
> preventing any insert into the table.
> 
> Just a guess.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> bryan
> 
> 
> 

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