Only 15 of 1600+ tablespaces are DMT including SYSTEM. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael McMullen Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:40 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Performance Problems Are the tablespace locally managed? If so, wouldn't the read from dba_data_files have to read from the datafile itself? I seem to remember this from an experiment I did once. Locally managed tablespace on a mount, take the mount away. read from dba_data_files didn't work. Switch to dictionary managed and the repeat test and the select ran. Mike -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l