Hi, >My initial test showed I requested 1 ITL and 4 blocks. I got 4 blocks with two ITL slots in them. This behaviour is a bit more than I understand under "default"; wouldn't be more correct to say, that the allowed range was changed as well?. > But anybody who looks at the block dump knows better. I strong skeptic would argue that this is only other presentation of the metadata. The best test IMHO is simple to stress a block with two parallel transactions and observe if the concurrency takes place. If I recall it correctly there is a paper on this topic from Arup Nanda on dbazine (unfortunately not online currently) and for sure lot of other stuff else. Regards Jaromir D.B. Nemec ----- Original Message ----- From: "Powell, Mark D" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx> To: <Les.Hollis@xxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:21 PM Subject: RE: enq: TX - index contention -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l