On 02/26/2007 12:20:07 PM, Herring Dave - dherri wrote: > Nothing in bad or discard file. This is all that's in the logfile: Ok. What does "hang" really mean? What does V$SESSION_WAIT say? Did you locate the accessing process? Did you try with strace/truss? Did you try dumping process and system states and ask Oracle Corp. to investigate, the process known as "opening a TAR"? When you say that process hangs, does it look like this? |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| /¯) |/|/\/ |/|\/ (¯¯¯) (¯¯¯) (¯¯¯) (¯¯¯) (¯¯¯) /¯¯/\ / ,^./\ / / \/\ / / \/\ ( ( )/) | | |/| | | |/| | | |/| ( ( )/) \ \ / / \ `---' / `-----' -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mladen-gogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l