Are you using LMTs ? We had a similar issue but it cleared when DMTs were converted to Local. fet$,uet$ etc etc were huge due to mismanaged extent sizes. Thanks, Ravi. -----Original Message----- From: A Joshi [mailto:ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:44 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracledba@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ** dictionary table access slow Hi, Queries to v$ tables are taking too long. We have Sun UNIX with 8174. For example the following queries take around 1 minute. How can this be tuned. Is it a symptom of some other problem? : select a.sid, a.serial#, c.spid, a.username, a.osuser, a.status,a.process, b.sql_text from v$session a , v$sqlarea b, v$process c where a.sql_address = b.address and c.addr = a.paddr order by a.username, a.osuser Thanks. Help is appreciated. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------