| Oracle8i Reference Release 2 (8.1.6) Part Number A76961-01  | 
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Dynamic Performance (V$) Views, 142 of 179
This view lists the resources or events for which active sessions are waiting.
The following are tuning considerations:
P1RAW, P2RAW, and P3RAW display the same values as the P1, P2, and P3 columns, except that the numbers are displayed in hexadecimal. 
WAIT_TIME column contains a value of -2 on platforms that do not support a fast timing mechanism. If you are running on one of these platforms and you want this column to reflect true wait times, you must set the TIMED_STATISTICS parameter to TRUE. Remember that doing this has a small negative effect on system performance. 
In previous releases the WAIT_TIME column contained an arbitrarily large value instead of a negative value to indicate the platform did not have a fast timing mechanism. 
WAIT_TIME and describes the state of the current or most recent wait.
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 Session identifier  | 
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 Sequence number that uniquely identifies this wait. Incremented for each wait.  | 
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 Resource or event for which the session is waiting. See Also: Appendix A, "Oracle Wait Events"  | 
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 First additional parameter  | 
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 First additional parameter  | 
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 Second additional parameter  | 
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 Third additional parameter  | 
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 Third additional parameter  | 
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 A non-zero value is the session's last wait time. A zero value means the session is currently waiting  | 
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 The seconds in wait  | 
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 Wait state:  | 
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