savepoint related performance issues

The process in question runs for about 18hours and has keeps a single CPU very busy for a majority of that time.

I traced the last execution but the resulting trace file is ~9GB and methodr's mrprof is having some trouble processing it (which may be due to the fact that I've only just begun to use it).

I split the file into 2GB pieces and processed the first piece.

82% of the response time is due to "CPU:EXEC dbcalls" subroutine (2,130,813 calls). Of that 99.3% is due to "SAVEPOINT sa_savepoint_10" w/ 897,601 EXEC calls and the same number of corresponding PARSE calls.

Active session history isn't much help digging into the cause for the excessive CPU consumption. I would think 800,000 exec calls would take nowhere near the time it does.

nothing really stuck out to me when i ran snapper (ash,stats) on the session in question.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot further?

Ultimately, i think this will require a change to the application code and how it's making use of savepoints.

Thanks for any insight/help!