RE: Ora 9.2.0.5/HP-UX 11.11/latch waits

Mike,

>We converted our SAP database to Unicode over the Labor Day=20
>weekend. Now we are seeing lots and lots of latch waits and
>buffer busy waits.

This might be way off, but did you change the NLS parameter values from the OS side and client side as well ? If not, the translation layer may be working overtime to check/convert charsets and thus impose a larger than usual CPU load, and this may result in what you describe....

Hth,
John Kanagaraj <><
DB Soft Inc
Phone: 408-970-7002 (W)

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