Hi all,
It feels good to be back to the old grounds
Well I have come with the same old question again
DB Sequential File reads
Here is my statspack report


Code:
              Snap Id     Snap Time      Sessions Curs/Sess Comment
            --------- ------------------ -------- --------- -------------------
Begin Snap:      5938 29-Sep-06 17:26:51      222  62,937.3
  End Snap:      5939 29-Sep-06 17:45:53      203  68,830.6
   Elapsed:               19.03 (mins)

Cache Sizes (end)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
               Buffer Cache:     6,512M      Std Block Size:          8K
           Shared Pool Size:       912M          Log Buffer:      8,192K

Load Profile
~~~~~~~~~~~~                            Per Second       Per Transaction
                                   ---------------       ---------------
                  Redo size:            327,017.33              6,816.72
              Logical reads:             35,226.16                734.29
              Block changes:              1,379.77                 28.76
             Physical reads:              7,828.18                163.18
            Physical writes:              1,200.11                 25.02
                 User calls:                645.95                 13.46
                     Parses:                 68.72                  1.43
                Hard parses:                 21.82                  0.45
                      Sorts:                850.77                 17.73
                     Logons:                  0.20                  0.00
                   Executes:              2,138.36                 44.57
               Transactions:                 47.97

  % Blocks changed per Read:    3.92    Recursive Call %:     82.98
 Rollback per transaction %:    0.00       Rows per Sort:    425.05

Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
            Buffer Nowait %:   99.66       Redo NoWait %:     99.99
            Buffer  Hit   %:   80.75    In-memory Sort %:    100.00
            Library Hit   %:   98.41        Soft Parse %:     68.24
         Execute to Parse %:   96.79         Latch Hit %:     99.69
Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %:   78.01     % Non-Parse CPU:     97.37
 Shared Pool Statistics        Begin   End
                               ------  ------
             Memory Usage %:   90.68   92.07
    % SQL with executions>1:   11.59   13.99
  % Memory for SQL w/exec>1:   14.88   17.29

Top 5 Timed Events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                     % Total
Event                                               Waits    Time (s) Ela Time
-------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- --------
db file sequential read                         1,856,951      78,320    65.99
CPU time                                                        8,530     7.19
buffer busy waits                                 138,214       8,363     7.05
db file scattered read                            597,840       4,955     4.17
log file sync                                      48,047       3,711     3.13
          -------------------------------------------------------------
^LWait Events for DB: ICCM  Instance: ICCM  Snaps: 5938 -5939
-> s  - second
-> cs - centisecond -     100th of a second
-> ms - millisecond -    1000th of a second
-> us - microsecond - 1000000th of a second
-> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc (idle events last)

                                                                   Avg
                                                     Total Wait   wait    Waits
Event                               Waits   Timeouts   Time (s)   (ms)     /txn
---------------------------- ------------ ---------- ---------- ------ --------
db file sequential read         1,856,951          0     78,320     42     33.9
buffer busy waits                 138,214        526      8,363     61      2.5
db file scattered read            597,840          0      4,955      8     10.9
log file sync                      48,047        364      3,711     77      0.9
direct path read                   46,301          0      2,465     53      0.8
PL/SQL lock timer                      51         51      2,403  47112      0.0
  Physical Reads  Executions  Reads per Exec %Total Time (s)  Time (s) Hash Value
--------------- ------------ -------------- ------ -------- --------- ----------
      3,645,051           69       52,826.8   40.8  1018.97   2395.30 2930303446
Module: JDBC Thin Client
SELECT CAF_NUM,MDN,RECEIPT_NO,PAYMENT_DATE,PAYMENT_AMOUNT,PAYMEN
T_MODE,PAYMENT_TYPE,PAYMENT_SOURCE ,SUBSTR(NM_CL_RCL_CUSTTYPE,0,
INSTR( NM_CL_RCL_CUSTTYPE,',',1)-1) CUSTOMER_NAME ,SUBSTR(NM_CL_
RCL_CUSTTYPE,INSTR( NM_CL_RCL_CUSTTYPE,',',1,1)+1,INSTR( NM_CL_R
CL_CUSTTYPE,',',1,2)-INSTR( NM_CL_RCL_CUSTTYPE,',',1,1)-1) CREDI

        652,895            1      652,895.0    7.3   712.12  18009.31 3020569594
DECLARE job BINARY_INTEGER := :job; next_date DATE := :mydate;
broken BOOLEAN := FALSE; BEGIN REP09_TELE(536875135); :mydate :=
 next_date; IF broken THEN :b := 1; ELSE :b := 0; END IF; END;

        504,780            1      504,780.0    5.6   666.32  17656.68 1172080501
DECLARE job BINARY_INTEGER := :job; next_date DATE := :mydate;
broken BOOLEAN := FALSE; BEGIN REP09_TELE(536874839); :mydate :=
 next_date; IF broken THEN :b := 1; ELSE :b := 0; END IF; END;

        391,309           12       32,609.1    4.4    60.90     93.08 1987881048
Module: JDBC Thin Client
UPDATE ICCM_DE_INTERACTIONS SET STATUS =2 WHERE DESTANATION_NAME
 IN ('CLARIFY_FLASH','FLASH_EXIT') AND STATUS = 0

        345,842           12       28,820.2    3.9    48.73     58.38 2127400582
Module: JDBC Thin Client
SELECT  ACCOUNT_NO,ACTION_CODE,DECODE(DESTANATION_NAME,'CLARIFY_
FLASH','Activate','FLASH_EXIT','DeActivateAll') FLASH_STR,ACTION
_DATE, TREATMENT_TYPE,MESSAGE ,REFERENCE_NO ,MDNNO FROM  ICCM_DE
_INTERACTIONS  WHERE  DESTANATION_NAME IN ('CLARIFY_FLASH','FLAS
H_EXIT') AND STATUS = 2 ORDER BY ACTION_DATE,ACCOUNT_NO

        335,031           12       27,919.3    3.7    46.93     50.83  388966200
Module: JDBC Thin Client
UPDATE ICCM_DE_INTERACTIONS SET STATUS =1 WHERE DESTANATION_NAME
 IN ('CLARIFY_FLASH','FLASH_EXIT') AND STATUS = 2

        331,342            1      331,342.0    3.7   887.22   1926.20 1371170133
Module: SQL*Plus
delete from invoice a where invoice_id in ( select invoice_id fr
om invoice_txt_ar a minus select invoice_id from invoice@iccm_ad
c0 )

        277,089            1      277,089.0    3.1   505.71   1312.15 3561242787
Module: SQL*Plus
delete from invoice a where invoice_id in ( select invoice_id fr
om invoice_txt_ar a minus select invoice_id from invoice@iccm_ad
c6 )

        249,671           52        4,801.4    2.8   206.23  19963.74 3145258518
Module: JDBC Thin Client
SELECT COUNT(DT.CAF_NUM) FROM ICCM_DUNNING_TREATMENT DT, (SELECT
 CAF_NUM,CIOU_ID FROM ICCM_CUSTOMER_RISK_SCORE WHERE CIOU_ID = :
B1 ) CAF WHERE CAF.CAF_NUM = DT.CAF_NUM AND CAF.CIOU_ID = :B1 AN
D (ACTION_DATE)=(SELECT MAX(ACTION_DATE) FROM ICCM_DUNNING_TREAT
^LSQL ordered by Reads for DB: ICCM  Instance: ICCM  Snaps: 5938 -5939
Statistic                                      Total     per Second    per Trans
--------------------------------- ------------------ -------------- ------------
CPU used by this session                     853,040          747.0         15.6
CPU used when call started                   510,519          447.0          9.3
CR blocks created                             58,413           51.2          1.1
Cached Commit SCN referenced                 147,495          129.2          2.7
Commit SCN cached                                 27            0.0          0.0
DBWR buffers scanned                         183,810          161.0          3.4
DBWR checkpoint buffers written              122,238          107.0          2.2
DBWR checkpoints                                   1            0.0          0.0
DBWR free buffers found                      173,266          151.7          3.2
DBWR lru scans                                    93            0.1          0.0
DBWR make free requests                          123            0.1          0.0
sorts (disk)                                       5            0.0          0.0
sorts (memory)                               971,575          850.8         17.7
sorts (rows)                             412,972,642      361,622.3      7,538.1
table fetch by rowid                      18,108,710       15,857.0        330.5
table fetch continued row                     16,371           14.3          0.3
table scan blocks gotten                   9,184,411        8,042.4        167.6
table scan rows gotten                   363,876,722      318,631.1      6,641.9
user calls                                   737,678          646.0         13.5
user commits                                  54,784           48.0          1.0
user rollbacks                                     1            0.0          0.0
The database is an OLTP with an average 3000 users hitting any point of time.
Can I do something about it? or start cleaning my guns
Bye the way I miss Gandalf and Mr Hanky (togather)