This is Oracle 8.1.7.4. I am attempting to interpret a 10046 trace, looking at a line that says: WAIT #1: nam='direct path read' ela= 0 p1=202 p2=955893 p3=16 As I understand it, p1 is the file number and p2 is the block number, but my database does not have a file number 202. What am I missing here? Thanks, Peter Schauss -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l