hi,Freeman Robert - IL
(you would have to do media recovery
after shutdown abort in some cases if this was not so)
-----i am not sure : during the abort , at the moment ,oracle changing the datafile header or controlfile imformation but not compelete.
Best regards
msn: biti_rainy_at_hotmail.com
a dba from alibaba(china)
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>Even though a logfile has been archived, it's contents still need to be
>written to disk via a checkpoint before it can be used again. This insures
>that instance recovery is possible (you would have to do media recovery
>after shutdown abort in some cases if this was not so).
>
>So, what is happening is that your disks are not keeping up with the
>checkpoint volume. Until the checkpoints can complete, your database will
>just stall, waiting.
>
>Look at your disks and see if there is something you can do to spread the IO
>around better. This can mean more disks, or perhaps just moving some
>datafiles around. I don't know if you are sititng on a SAN or JBODS, but
>this is the area that you are most likley going to need to address.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Robert
>
>Robert G. Freeman
>Management Consultant
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Sent: 11/18/2004 3:29 PM
>Subject: checkpoint incomplete issue
>
>I'm running a batch updates on my database and I've
>been getting the following messages in my alert file:
>"cannot allocate new log
>check point incomplete."
>
>My job hangs waiting on log file switch (checkpoint
>incomplete) event.
>
>I have 8 redo log groups (300MB members). When I did a
>query on v$log, all of the log members' archived
>status ='YES' except for the current member. So it
>appears that the rest of the seven groups have been
>archived but yet the database could not advanced to
>the next redo log.
>
>Furthermore, the alert.log does not show frequent log
>switches. It switches log every 10mins and about every
>5mins, the database complains
>about "cannot allocate new log". Does not appear to be
>a problem with the number or size of the redo logs.
>Anyone has any idea what may be a possible problem?
>checkpoint?
>
>thanks.
>
>susan
>
>
>
>
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