Millisecond timer in PL/SQL

All,

I'm looking for a way to measure the elapsed time (in milliseconds) of executing a bunch of functions within a PL/SQL package. I've written a "timer" function that records this by using SYSTIMESTAMP, however is causes the sessions to spend a significant amount of time waiting on "cache buffers chains".

Coding "w_date := SYSTIMESTAMP;" will result in a recursive "SELECT SYSTIMESTAMP FROM DUAL", and this is the sql being executed by sessions waiting on this latch (from v$session_wait and v$sqlarea).

Does anyone have suggestions for ways that I can improve this?

I have 50 concurrent sessions (batch jobs) running this, and each will call the "timer" function about 60 times per second. Originally I used V$TIMER, however the HSECS from this was not granular enough.

Thanks,

Scott Hutchinson
Interact Analysis Ltd

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