Hi, I think I came across Bug 7529174 - Deadlock / hang between SMON and foreground process (Doc ID 7529174.8) on my 4 node 10.2.0.3 rac . There was user$ and obj$ tables involved (smon had TX enqueus on them) . I did some killing :) on sessions waitng on row cach id=7 (dc_users IIRC). Well, there was like 7000 ctime on that lock for smon sid . I'm wondering why standard deadlock resolving routine did not worked for that . So my question is how long such deadlock would lasts (on smon)? Additionaly I saw a lot of session waiting on SS enq (sort segment? ts#=3 = temp) . Not sure if that was because of smon hang (probably yes but please confirm). So far instance seems stable till next alter user race condition :). Regards GregG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Skoda Octavia z 2009 roku juz za 11 tys. zl http://linkint.pl/f2a36 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l