I ran this query on a non rac 10.2.0.3 database and it returned the rows very quickly. It may be some RAC related issue. Regards Rafiq Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:35:40 +0100From: exriscer@xxxxxxxxxxx: snowman327@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Re: Query against V$SESSION hangs on 10g RAC systemsCC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx hi querying blocking_session is the problem, if you dont query that columnd then it should be fine I have a customer who requested a backport to fix the bug but the one-off patch has no effect so might have to wait until 10.2.0.4 thanks -- LSC On 11/1/07, Dean <snowman327@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: We recently had a locking/blocking problem on two different 10.2.0.3 RAC systems. I ran a query similar to below to get more information: select sid, serial#, program, module, action, username, osuser, sql_hash_value, machine, event, blocking_session from v$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? _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct