there are/were a number of performance issues with the rman catalog. I'd check out metalink and/or your rman version. On 7/29/09, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am trying to delete about 8000 expired objects in rman and, well I waited > a day and it still hasnt finished! > Is my catalog sick? > Oracle 10g Linux > > -- > Howard A. Latham > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info