Huge number of DBA_DDL_LOCKS

  • From: Jay <jaysingh1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:20:39 -0500

Dear All,

Why these many DDL locks? Is something wrong in this environment? Or it is 
normal to have 20k+ locks?

If it is not okay where should I start investigating this issue?

Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning and Parallel Server options
JServer Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production
 
SQL> select count(*) from dba_ddl_locks;
 
  COUNT(*)
----------
     21318
 
SQL> select count(*) from dba_dml_locks;
 
  COUNT(*)
----------
         3
 
SQL> 
 
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