Define 'real unhappy'
Your post is too vague to answer it.
Did you look in the alert log?
Did you run the performance monitor to identify whether the system is CPU or
IO-bound.
If you can please come up with something more substantial and this group
will be happy to answer it.
Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
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