Troubleshooting performance event ‘enq: CF – contention’
CF enqueues are control file enqueues, which occur during parallel access to the control file,it is a system enqueues generally only held for a very short time. the CF locks are used to serialize controlfile transactions and read and writes on shared portions of the controlfile.Control file enqueue is an expensive operation. For operations like updating checkpoint SCNs for datafiles, for no-logging operations, such enqueue on controlfile is taken.