I think if you look at the v$session_event view, you will find that these are idle waits by the various dbw slave processes.
Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Author of: Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases Next Seminar - Australia - July/August http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Host to The Co-Operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 May 2002 20:57 | |You know I could have all the documentation for Oracle printed on my brain, |buy all the books ever written about the subject, but the primary wait |problem that comes up will never be directly addressed. | |So, what exactly does 'Slave Wait' mean and what can I do about it? | | |I am using DBWR Slaves, since it did not seem as though starting additional |DBWR's was appropriate on a Win2000 system. | |Here are the Top 5 wait events as per Statpack and my shinny new 'Oracle |Performance Tuning 101' book: | |Top 5 Wait Events |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wait % |Total |Event Waits Time (cs) Wt |Time |-------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- - ----- |-- |slave wait 66,593 6,793,939 |88.85 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
