Which version of Oracle ? Is the HW enqueue for the table, the lob segment, the lobindex, or the tablespace enqueue; does it rotate around all four ? What's your setting of pctversion - it may need to be reviewed for 50 concurrent updates - or if you're on version 9, perhaps the FREE_POOLS parameter for the LOB definition may be more relevant. How do you update a lob if you've truncated the table ? (or is there an option to truncate a specific lob -- I must read the manuals again). Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html March 2004 Hotsos Symposium - The Burden of Proof Dynamic Sampling - an investigation March 2004 Charlotte OUG (www.cltoug.org) CBO Tutorial April 2004 Iceland June 2004 UK - Optimising Oracle Seminar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Cohoon" <Mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:13 AM Subject: Lob chunk updates : Anyone notice this? 50 concurrent updaters for a table's LOB stored : out-of-line are serialized on the HW enqueue, unless truncated. : : Makes a person wonder if a filesystem is not so bad after all.. : --Don : : ---------------------------------------------------------------- : Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com : ---------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx : put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. : -- : Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ : FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html : ----------------------------------------------------------------- : ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------