Hi, Mladen, I should have been more specific. Oracle 9.2.0.4 on SUN Got these stats. Larry Statement Enqueue Statistics Type,Mode Duration # Calls Avg Min Max ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- --------------------- ----------------- ----------------- TX,4 15.712781s 57.4% 6 2.618797s 0.675651s 3.007695s CF,6 11.674449s 42.6% 76 0.153611s 0.000001s 1.030237s HW,6 0.000771s 0.0% 1 0.000771s 0.000771s 0.000771s Total 27.388001s 100.0% 83 0.329976s -----Original Message----- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:09 AM To: Wolfson Larry - lwolfs Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: What is this doing for me? Wolfson Larry - lwolfs wrote: >This statement appears to be killing our performance. > >What's going on and is there anything we can do about it? > >select >type#,blocks,extents,minexts,maxexts,extsize,extpct,user#,iniexts,NVL(l i >sts,65535),NVL( >groups,65535),cachehint,hwmincr, NVL(spare1,0) >from seg$ >where ts#=:1 >and file#=:2 >and block#=:3 > > > Thanks > > Analyzing data dictionary might help, if the oracle version allows it. How do you know that this is the statement that is killing your performance? May be increasing shared pool would help? What kind of waits are you encountering? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 ************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. ************************************************************************** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l