Hi all. We have 2 node RAC machine on HP/UX Itanium (10.1.0.4) Sometimes we see some queries suffer from *latch: cache buffer chain* event. problem is mostly accessing same block concurrently. ** When I take 10046 trace for the queries I always see negative values for P1 value of the wait event. *WAIT #9: nam='latch: cache buffers chains' ela= 1 p1=-4611686000696528624 p2=116 p3=0 *when I change this value to hexadecimal (both negative and positive) to use as an input to *hot blocks* script ( *metalink (163424.1)*), zero rows returns every time from the script. what should I do to find the hot blocks ??? Am I hitting a bug ? -- A. Coskan GUNDOGAR Oracle DBA http://coskan.wordpress.com