Bear in mind that when you are talking about a "load process", your client is another computer program, and should not (you hope) need any "think time". This is the one case where the "SQL*Net message from client" is a threat rather than (as statspack puts it, I think) an idle event.
Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Now available One-day tutorials: Cost Based Optimisation Trouble-shooting and Tuning Indexing Strategies (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ) ____UK_______April 8th ____UK_______April 22nd ____Denmark May 21-23rd ____USA_(FL)_May 2nd Next dates for the 3-day seminar: (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ) ____UK_(Manchester)_May ____USA_(CA, TX)_August 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]> Sent: 15 March 2003 06:13 > I noticed a similar problem on my last contract assignment. I was lucky > as the loading process took 4 hours but only 1 hour was spent by > oracle. > So we knew it was application that was taking the time. running the > application on a faster processor cut the time to 1/3. We also could > not find any problem with the network or sqlnet either. > > Hope this helps > > Mohammed Shakir > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).