Troubleshooting or analyzing waits on mutex events, i.e. ones that start with "cursor:", are very similar to each other and below are some guidelines. There are many bugs related to problems using mutexes in Oracle 10g, the first version where mutexes were introduced. If you are seeing excessive waits on mutexes, a quick fix may be to go back to the library cache latching mechanism. To do this, you can set the parameter _kks_use_mutex_pin=false.   Note: For mutex related waits, v$session.blocking_session is not populated in 10.2. However, v$session.blocking_session is populated in 11g R1.   To do further analysis, the P2RAW column in v$session gives the blocking session, i.e. the holder SID of the mutex in the upper 8 bytes. It is in hex so it needs to be converted in decimal. The following query provides the blockers with the most sessions blocked behind it as well as converts the P2RAW to an usable SID:   select p2raw, to_number(substr(to_char(rawtohex(p2raw)), 1, 8), 'XXXXXXXX') sid, count(1) sessions_waiting from v$session where event = 'cursor: pin S wait on X' group by p2raw, to_number(substr(to_char(rawtohex(p2raw)), 1, 8), 'XXXXXXXX');   P2RAW