Just to follow up, Oracle support said this is a know issue and will be = fixed in 10g. release 2.=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ) Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:04 AM To: Oracledba@Lazydba. Com (E-mail); Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: 10g, blocking session is null when locking occurs on other node. I am testing a new 10g RAC (2 node) system on HP-UX. I am testing how = to diagnose locking issues. On node 1, I update a table. In=20 another session on node 1, I update the same table and this session = waits as expected. In v$session I can see the enq TX wait and now in 10g = I can even see the session that is causing the block (in the = blocking_session column - very cool). If I open a session on node 2, and = also update that same table (as on node 1), I can see the enq TX wait, = but the blocking_session status is null and the blocking_session_status = is 'GLOBAL'. It seems to me that the blocking_session is missing on this = second node during an TX situation.=20 When this situation occurs, I can easily see that a session is being = blocked ... if it has status of GLOBAL, I can assume it is being blocked = by a session on the other node, but I have no way of knowing what SID is = causing the block.=20 Is this expected behaviour? I opened a TAR with Oracle and they could = reproduce, but have not said if this was expected or not. TIA. John John Fedock "K" Line America -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l