Nevermind...... Boneheaded, brain dead code, was doing a loop, hitting ORA-1628, and had a "when others then ..." clause that caused the error to be ignored...so, it spun....really, really fast....and nearly filled my /oracle mountpoint! I killed it....problem solved.... Sorry for the false alarm..... -Mark From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:55 PM To: oracle-l-freelists Subject: ORA-1628 spewing into alert.log on 11.2.0.1? Anyone seen this before? I'm running 11.2.0.1, 4-node RAC, on RHEL 5.3, x64-64. I'm seeing continual spewing of the following line into my alert log: ORA-1628: max # extents 32765 reached for rollback segment _SYSSMU29_3170879604$ Many, many times per second. This is happening only on one node. I checked MetaLink, and there's a bug, but it's supposedly fixed in 11.1.0.7, and the sample queries they have to run do not seem to indicate this bug. Anyone else seen this? Thanks, -Mark