Someone is doing:

dbms_lock.sleep(x)

where 'x' is seconds.  It won't be causing any
performance problems - its a 'quiet' wait

hth
connor

--- "Naik, Sandesh S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I need urgent assistance is resolving issues with
> PL/SQL lock timer. My
> query is waiting on this event more than an hour.
> waited duration is
> incrementing when I query v$session_wait.
>  Do you know what this PL/SQL lock timer event is?
> why my query is waiting
> on this event for so long? How do resolve this? 
>  We are on v7.3.4.5.0 on HP-UX 11.0
> Your help is appreciated.
> 
>  132        672 PL/SQL lock timer
> duration                                            
>                    300
> 0000012C
>                                                     
>                     0
> 00
>                                                     
>                      0
> 00     301     2555 WAITED KNOWN TIME
> 
> Thanks
> Sandesh
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> No doubt Novell at the time was more stable than
> NT at the time. 
> 
> But some of these stories, which can start off as
> "My 
> Novell box seems more stable than that NT 3.51 SP 1
> box" 
> mutate into internet apocrypha faster than you can
> spell "telephone".
> 
> Before you know it, it's a heartlung machine, coded
> in assembler, 
> running on a Novell beta release cross compiled to
> the Kaypro, 
> which has been up, even through tornadoes, for 22
> years. Meanwhile, 
> the NT box crashed on boot up, then corrupted the
> disk, sold the 
> house, and slept with my wife.  
> 
> I always ask for details. Two reasons. The first is
> to take a 
> litmus test for veracity. The other is (assuming
> veracity) to 
> learn something about how to make systems stable.
> <shrug>
> 
> || -----Original Message-----
> || From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> || Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 5:48 PM
> || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> || Subject: RE: backspace in Oracle.
> || 
> || 
> || that would be if the stupid (HELP) data janitor
> remembers to do 
> || VREPAIR once every other month or so. sometime
> the stupid data 
> || janitor forgets and only does it once a year
> (with no other 
> || downtime).
> || 
> || in other words, except for occasional/normal
> piddly maintenance 
> || (which is not otherwise required to keep the
> system up), netware3x 
> || will not typically experience the same thing as
> the (supposedly) 
> || infamous NT reboots.
> || 
> || ???
> || 
> || ep
> || 
> || On 30 May 2001, at 13:10, Mohan, Ross wrote:
> || 
> || Date sent:         Wed, 30 May 2001 13:10:37 -0800
> || To:                Multiple recipients of list
> ORACLE-L 
> || <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> || 
> || > I am all for NLMs, DLMs, and M&M.
> || > 
> || > But, if you let me bounce most any NT box
> || > once a month for, say, a DEFRAG, I'll be
> || > able to keep it up for one helluva long
> || > time too. 
> || > 
> || > Ross NMN Mohan
> || > 
> || > || -----Original Message-----
> || > || From: Eric D. Pierce
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> || > || Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:03 PM
> || > || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> || > || Subject: RE: backspace in Oracle.
> || 
> || ...
> || 
> || > || Only reason for "downtime" is running
> VREPAIR (rough 
> || equivalent of 
> || > || "scandisk") about once every other month,
> and also when 
> || the startup 
> || > || files need maintenance (usually related to
> changed 
> || parameters on 
> || > || .nlms loaded, versoin upgrades, etc) and a
> bounce is 
> || required. also 
> || > || we recently had to put in a new UPS battery,
> which 
> || required a down.
> || 
> || ...
> || 
> || 
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