Background processes locked objects

[gaegoori]

I have this one background process that's holding a lock on object called C_OBJ#. I think it's SMON. mode is row exclusive and object owner is SYS and object type is cluster. It's keep table scanning the SYS.TAB$ and SYS.IND$. Is this a normal behavior? Is there anyway to release this lock?

[anandkl]

Is this causing any performance degradtion, if yes please let us know what kind of issue r u facing.
Other wise this should be a normal behaviour.

regards
anandkl

[gaegoori]

It's not causing performance, but I was just wondering if it causes other session to hang. I have other session that's holing different locks on same object C_OBJ#.