hi querying blocking_session is the problem, if you dont query that columnd then it should be fine I have a customer who requested a backport to fix the bug but the one-off patch has no effect so might have to wait until 10.2.0.4 thanks -- LSC On 11/1/07, Dean <snowman327@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We recently had a locking/blocking problem on two different 10.2.0.3 RAC > systems. I ran a query similar to below to get more information: > > > > select sid, serial#, program, module, action, username, osuser, > > sql_hash_value, machine, event, blocking_session > > from v$session > > where status='ACTIVE'; > > > > About 1 out of 5 times this query hangs. When it hangs, it waits for > exactly 60 seconds on "DIAG idle wait" and then returns the result set. If > I remove the blocking_session column, this query runs fine and never hangs. > Has anyone run into this or have any ideas why this would happen? >