I don't think I can rebuild that index because it is partitioned. thank you Gene Gurevich "Thomas Day" <tomday2@xxxxxxxx m> To Sent by: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx oracle-l-bounce@f cc reelists.org Subject Re: latch wait - cache buffer chain 10/25/2006 08:40 AM Please respond to tomday2@xxxxxxxxx Without know more about the detail, I would suggest alter index rebuild reverse. You might get lucky and the reverse could redistribute your data to eliminate the hot blocks. Since you say "report" I am assuming that you are doing read only. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l