I'm having a WHOLE lot of fun trying to track down the source of some ORA-2049 (timeout: distributed transaction waiting for lock) in a purchased app=20 called Matrix. I have a number of questions I'm hoping=20 someone can answer. Now, according to Metalink, this occurs when a session is=20 waiting on a TX enqueue that another session is holding AND the waiting session is performing a distributed operation via a DB link. Also, according to Metalink (in a different document), TX enqueues are taken on particular slots in particular rollback segments. If a new connection does, as it's first statment, a read across a DB link, is a TX enqueue aquired immediately on a local rollback=20 segment (as I think it is?) Why would two transactions need the same TX enqueue? Is it because they are attempting to update the same row locally (which I have been=20 unable to prove or disprove yet)? Is it because they are=20 both going after the same rows remotely? Is it a lack of available = slots in the rollback segments (ie, not enough rollback segments)? None of these scenerios seem very likely in this case, but I'm=20 grasping at straws here. ---- Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams@xxxxxxxxxxx Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.=20 - The Brigadier ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------