How many times this happens with
Most of the time, we are not running a large job, automatic cost posting is set to never and we do not analyses the view. We used to have this happen a lot when we had a number of similar users doing the same thing like posting consumption or purchase postings.
If you have access to see your development environment you can look at which table is locked and who is locking it. Then it can be visible what that user was doing as compared to whoever locked the table.
For more information on facing Locking Issues in