Does the user have multiple sessions open? You can see in EM if the lock might be held by one session (e.g., an update issued without a commit) and he's being blocked in another session. Jay Miller -----Original Message----- From: Prem Khanna J [mailto:premj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:25 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: TM lock problem Hi all, the env is oracle 9.2.0.4 / AIX5.2L i am facing TM lock problem on a table. it's small table with 3 fields . only one user is working on it . no other concurrent user is using the table.this only user does some insert/delete on the table and he faces this lock error. Checking it with EM console,shows that that table is locked by TM (Row Exclusive) lock. i thought of "alter table .. disable table lock" , but that will not be a permanent solution anyway. with just one user working on it , why do i face this problem ? can't understand why this happens ? statspack report during that period, shows "log file sync" among the first top wait events. the log files are 10M now. will making it bigger help me ? Load Profile ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Per Second Per Tx --------------- ------- Redo size: 21,216.86 2,675.56 Logical reads: 465.08 58.65 Block changes: 71.96 9.07 Physical reads: 20.01 2.52 Physical writes: 6.43 0.81 User calls: 48.68 6.14 Parses: 7.91 1.00 Hard parses: 0.16 0.02 Sorts: 6.98 0.88 Logons: 0.01 0.00 Executes: 34.59 4.36 Transactions: 7.93 % Blocks changed per Read: 15.47 Recursive Call %: 50.79 Rollback per transaction %: 0.16 Rows per Sort: 6.40 Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Buffer Nowait %: 100.00 Redo NoWait %: 99.99 Buffer Hit %: 96.56 In-memory Sort %: 100.00 Library Hit %: 99.05 Soft Parse %: 98.01 Execute to Parse %: 77.12 Latch Hit %: 99.81 Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %: 72.00 % Non-Parse CPU: 94.25 Shared Pool Statistics Begin End ------ ------ Memory Usage %: 88.31 88.26 % SQL with executions>1: 78.67 81.10 % Memory for SQL w/exec>1: 70.37 72.54 Top 5 Timed Events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ % Total Event Waits Time (s) Ela Time --------------------------------- ------------ -------- ------- CPU time 25 44.36 log file sync 7,334 18 31.42 db file sequential read 1,774 4 7.49 db file parallel write 81 3 5.29 rdbms ipc reply 21 2 3.53 how to avoid this error ? can someone guide me ? -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/