Oracle 9.2.0.6 Solaris 8 I've got a dbms_job that hangs. Tracing the job shows massive amounts of write complete waits: *** 2006-09-26 13:08:01.500 WAIT #5: nam='write complete waits' ela= 976709 p1=202 p2=55183 p3=0 WAIT #5: nam='write complete waits' ela= 986042 p1=202 p2=55183 p3=0 WAIT #5: nam='write complete waits' ela= 986163 p1=202 p2=55185 p3=0 WAIT #5: nam='write complete waits' ela= 986249 p1=202 p2=55185 p3=0 Now I thought that the p1 and p2 values pointed to the file# and block# values. However, there is no file with an id of 202 in this database: SQL> select file# from file$; FILE# ---------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 rows selected. What am I missing? And what could cause a process to wait for hours for write complete waits Ray