| Oracle® Database Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14237-03  | 
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V$SESSION_WAIT displays 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.
The 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, then you must set the TIMED_STATISTICS initialization 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.
The STATE column interprets the value of WAIT_TIME and describes the state of the current or most recent wait.
| Column | Datatype | Description | 
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SID | 
NUMBER | 
Session identifier | 
SEQ# | 
NUMBER | 
Sequence number that uniquely identifies this wait. Incremented for each wait. | 
EVENT | 
VARCHAR2(64) | 
Resource or event for which the session is waiting
 See Also: Appendix C, "Oracle Wait Events"  | 
P1TEXT | 
VARCHAR2(64) | 
Description of the first additional parameter | 
P1 | 
NUMBER | 
First additional parameter | 
P1RAW | 
RAW(4) | 
First additional parameter | 
P2TEXT | 
VARCHAR2(64) | 
Description of the second additional parameter | 
P2 | 
NUMBER | 
Second additional parameter | 
P2RAW | 
RAW(4) | 
Second additional parameter | 
P3TEXT | 
VARCHAR2(64) | 
Description of the third additional parameter | 
P3 | 
NUMBER | 
Third additional parameter | 
P3RAW | 
RAW(4) | 
Third additional parameter | 
WAIT_CLASS_ID | 
NUMBER | 
Identifier of the wait class | 
WAIT_CLASS# | 
NUMBER | 
Number of the wait class | 
WAIT_CLASS | 
VARCHAR2(64) | 
Name of the wait class | 
WAIT_TIME | 
NUMBER | 
A nonzero value is the session's last wait time. A zero value means the session is currently waiting. | 
SECONDS_IN_WAIT | 
NUMBER | 
If WAIT_TIME = 0, then SECONDS_IN_WAIT is the seconds spent in the current wait condition. If WAIT_TIME > 0, then SECONDS_IN_WAIT is the seconds since the start of the last wait, and SECONDS_IN_WAIT - WAIT_TIME / 100 is the active seconds since the last wait ended. | 
STATE | 
VARCHAR2(19) | 
Wait state:
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