An INSERT into SYS.AUD$ Would Appear to be Causing a Hang State

An INSERT into SYS.AUD$ Would Appear to be Causing a Hang State (Doc ID 2120366.1)

Last updated on MARCH 25, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1 to 12.1.0.1 [Release 11.2 to 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

An INSERT...VALUES statement into table SYS.AUD$ appears to be causing a great amount of foreground wait time. Data within an ASH report may resemble the following:

The parameter, AUDIT_TRAIL, is set to a value other than NONE or OS.
The database is participating in distributed transactions via the XA Architecture.

There are no obvious changes visible (although you may just have recently begun to employ the XA Architecture).

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