One thing that I have found sorely missing in the performance pages of Enterprise Manager is latency values for various types of I/O. The performance page or top activity may show high I/O waits but it won’t indicated if the latency of I/O is unusually high or not. Thus I put together a shell script that shows latency for the main I/O waits db file sequential read db file scattered read log file parallel write direct path reads direct path reads temp Of course it would be nice to add a few others like direct path writes, direct path writes…