Hi: 8173 running on Solaris 2.8. Does any one have experience running oracle's "ctxsrv" as background process to alleviate some locking issues? We are experiencing session piling up when sometimes Oracle Intermadia index is being built (when two sessions were updating different rows in the same table). When it happened, I ran a query and saw something like this: SID OBJECT USERNAME ---------- ---------- ------------------------------ IMAGE LOCK_TYPE ------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- MODE_HELD ---------------------------------------- MODE_REQUESTED ---------------------------------------- 29 DR$WAITING ISI (TNS V1-V3) DML Row-X (SX) None SID OBJECT USERNAME ---------- ---------- ------------------------------ IMAGE LOCK_TYPE ------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- MODE_HELD ---------------------------------------- MODE_REQUESTED ---------------------------------------- 29 TEMPTEXT ISI (TNS V1-V3) DML Row-X (SX) None SID OBJECT USERNAME ---------- ---------- ------------------------------ IMAGE LOCK_TYPE ------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- MODE_HELD ---------------------------------------- MODE_REQUESTED ---------------------------------------- 29 DR$TEMPTEX ISI (TNS V1-V3) DML Row-X (SX) None ... Usually after a few minutes, everthing is back to normal. My guess is that Oracle is somehow trying to build context index and it takes long time to do that (don't know why). I saw from the oracle doc perhaps running ctxsrv at the background would help. So what is your experience of running ctxsrv? TIA. Guang ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------