GEN0 General Task Execution Process Performs required tasks including SQL and DML Database and ASM instances More from Mr Tom Kyte http://books.google.com/books?id=HPJDlGmecwcC&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&dq=GEN0+process+oracle&source=bl&ots=VULfOIBxuH&sig=FB7eJxBN9InImJ8_4w6vU-uJ-1w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=flA1T5aOE-nc0QGCtLnLAg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=GEN0%20process%20oracle&f=false On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM, rjamya <rjamya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last night we saw (I mean really saw) a gen0 process blocked by a user > session performing a distributed transaction in our RAC db. Unfortunately > neither Oracle nor interwebs are very helpful on what this gen0 process is. > Does anyone know more on what that process is? I also saw there are couple > of bugs (oeri:1433) with this process, so wanted to understand more. > Thanks in advance > Raj > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Thanks & Regards, Taral Desai -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l