Chris, It is a temp file. I guess you have set the db_files=300. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/ Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Newman, Christopher <cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We're trying to find a hot block: > > select p1 "File #", p2 "Block #", p3 "Reason Code" from v$session_wait > where event = 'buffer busy waits'; > > File # Block # Reason Code > ---------- ---------- ----------- > 304 2 13 (File block header) > 304 2 13 > ..... > > Here's the issue, there is *no* file# 304. There are only 240 datafiles > in the database and only a handful of temp files. 304 matches neither > the file_id nor relative_fno in dba_data_files. Nothing maps to that in > dba_segments either. Is this a bug, or are we doing something wrong > here? > > Chris Newman > Database Specialist > AITS, University of Illinois > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l