Oracle 11g as source to InfoSphere CDC
When Oracle 11g is used as a source for InfoSphere CDC, there was an observation that the control files are hammered with I/O at much higher frequency than that of Oracle 10g, causing the overall degrade in system performance. Following page gives quite a good amount of details about how Oracle uses control files and also provides the way to diminish this problem. http://www.confio.com/English/Tips/Control_File_Reads_Writes.php Before attempting to do anything with InfoSphere CDC, try doing the recommendation given in the above URL.