Hi Sheldon >I Would Like To Know , If Undo Block Is Brought In The Buffer Cache, >During An Update.. SO What Process Write The Undo Block [Old Image] To >The Physically Undo Datafile. Just an observation... Which processes opened the datafile of an undo tablespace? linux:oracle:A920 /u00/app/oracle> lsof /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME oracle 18808 oracle 16uW REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18810 oracle 17u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18812 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18814 oracle 13u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18820 oracle 14u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18837 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18839 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 18841 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 29676 oracle 15u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf oracle 30232 oracle 14u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 = /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf Ok, there are 10 processes... but if you carefully give a look to the = output only one has a write lock on it (flag "W"), i.e. 18808. linux:oracle:A920 /u00/app/oracle> ps -fp 18808 UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD oracle 18808 1 0 May11 ? 00:00:08 ora_dbw0_A920 HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l