I have encountered this on one of my RAC node which someone is doing 'select *" from a table with thousands of partitions. This note helped me: 786507.1 HOW TO FIND BLOCKING SESSION FOR MUTEX WAIT EVENT cursor: pin S wait on X Thanks, Lei Zeng Sr. Oracle DBA Yahoo -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Blackburn Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:06 PM Cc: Oracle L Subject: cursor: pin X wait on S Does anyone know what would cause a lot of "cursor: pin X wait on S" waits in a RAC system? I've read it might be due to a lot of hard parsing, but that doesn't seem to be the case in our system, yet one of our main queries has high concurrency waits due to this. Thanks, Stuart -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l