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rdbms ipc reply. a problem?

AJNov 27 2012 — edited Nov 27 2012
My environment: RAC 11.2.0.2.6 (2 nodes running RHEL 5)

The below snap is from a one hour AWR report when running an application stability test. So the load is fairly light and the response time is good.
However, looking at the top 5 timed events I'm seeing lots of waits for "rdbms ipc reply" and "DFS lock handle". The actual time waited for these events are very low in a one hour picture, but could this be a potential time-bomb I'm seeing?
I'd expect these numbers to increase when an actual real-production workload is run.

I checked the p1 in v$session_wait for the actual lock that "DFS lock handle" is waiting on and it seems to be two variants: BB and DX that has to do with distributed transactions.
The application is running on the latest weblogic server.

              Snap Id      Snap Time      Sessions Curs/Sess
            --------- ------------------- -------- ---------
Begin Snap:     14421 23-Nov-12 15:00:24     1,482       2.5
  End Snap:     14424 23-Nov-12 16:00:42     1,482       2.5
   Elapsed:               60.30 (mins)
   DB Time:                5.55 (mins)

Cache Sizes                       Begin        End
~~~~~~~~~~~                  ---------- ----------
               Buffer Cache:     1,136M     1,136M  Std Block Size:         8K
           Shared Pool Size:     1,776M     1,776M      Log Buffer:    16,828K

Load Profile              Per Second    Per Transaction   Per Exec   Per Call
~~~~~~~~~~~~         ---------------    --------------- ---------- ----------
      DB Time(s):                0.1                0.0       0.00       0.00
       DB CPU(s):                0.1                0.0       0.00       0.00
       Redo size:           15,202.6            2,089.8
   Logical reads:              413.9               56.9
   Block changes:               73.5               10.1
  Physical reads:                0.3                0.0
 Physical writes:                2.1                0.3
      User calls:              225.9               31.1
          Parses:               39.2                5.4
     Hard parses:                4.5                0.6
W/A MB processed:                0.1                0.0
          Logons:                0.1                0.0
        Executes:              142.9               19.7
       Rollbacks:                0.0                0.0
    Transactions:                7.3
Event                                 Waits     Time(s)   (ms)   time Wait Class
------------------------------ ------------ ----------- ------ ------ ----------
DB CPU                                              216          64.9
rdbms ipc reply                     269,792          48      0   14.5 Other
log file sync                        26,331          28      1    8.3 Commit
DFS lock handle                      33,825          17      1    5.1 Other
gc cr block 2-way                    42,217          16      0    4.9 Cluster
Database services for the application are configured like this:
Service name: srv_prod_app
Service is enabled
Server pool: prod_srv_prod_app
Cardinality: 2
Disconnect: false
Service role: PRIMARY
Management policy: AUTOMATIC
DTP transaction: false
AQ HA notifications: false
Failover type: NONE
Failover method: NONE
TAF failover retries: 0
TAF failover delay: 0
Connection Load Balancing Goal: LONG
Runtime Load Balancing Goal: NONE
TAF policy specification: NONE
Edition:
Preferred instances: prod1,prod2
Available instances:
I'm not even sure I have a problem - as I said the system i fairly loaded right now and the application response time is good - but should these waits be cause of concern or are they to be considered normal in a RAC env? If not please advise.

Thanks!
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