Note that if you see a TX enqueue waiting on mode 4, that's not necessarily ITL slot shortage. If the waiting statement is an INSERT and the object is a heap table, then it's definitely not ITL shortage. (If there's ITL shortage on a table block, INSERT will go to another block on the free list, if it's on the index, INSERT will do a block split.) The other cause TX enqueue mode 4 waits is concurrent inserts colliding on a unique index, PK, or UK. (i.e. session 1 inserts key value 1, session 2 inserts value 2, session 1 attempts to insert value 2, session 2 attempts to insert value 1) Hope that helps, -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." --Robert A. Heinlein ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of BN Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:15 AM To: goran bogdanovic Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Block dump - Uncommitted TXN - Help Urgent On 9/20/06, goran bogdanovic <goran00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, The inittrans should correspond to your max active concurrent dml sessions on that table goran On 9/20/06, BN < bnsarma@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bnsarma@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: On 9/19/06, Christian Antognini < Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > I was thinking of INITRANS , is there a way to track that from > v$lock, > I remember once Steve Adams answering some body looking at v$lock > looking at Request Column, not sure though Hi Here an example of sessions waiting for a transaction slot: SQL> SELECT event FROM v$session_wait WHERE sid = 12; EVENT ----------- enqueue SQL> SELECT type, id1, id2, lmode, request FROM v$lock WHERE sid = 12; TY ID1 ID2 LMODE REQUEST -- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- TM 34522 0 3 0 TX 393247 9877 0 4 As you can see the request mode is S (4). HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Greetings, Yes I saw Request=4 for quite a few sessions. I ahve Identified the Tables that needs INITRANS Bump. Is there a way to figureout how much should I bump for each table in question -- Regards & Thanks BN Greetings Yes, I understand, is there a view in the Datadictionary to check how much each table has reached, other than tracking/sampling v$lock or v$transaction -- Regards & Thanks BN