Re: What are these background processes?

d0000, d0001 are db writer processes.
s0000, s... are mts server processes.
The number of these processes are created according to the specification in the init$ORACLE_SID.ora file. Check out db_writer and mts_servers parameters.

Chuck Hamilton <Xchuckh_at_dvol.com> wrote in article <344a15eb.8091620_at_news.dvol.com>...
> Here is a listing of background processes from one of my Oracle 7.3
> instances...
>
> oracle 26497 1 1 15:56:43 ? 0:01 ora_d001_test
> oracle 26491 1 0 15:56:43 ? 0:00 ora_reco_test
> oracle 26487 1 3 15:56:43 ? 0:16 ora_lgwr_test
> oracle 26489 1 0 15:56:43 ? 0:11 ora_smon_test
> oracle 26483 1 5 15:56:43 ? 0:28 ora_dbwr_test
> oracle 26485 1 0 15:56:43 ? 0:00 ora_arch_test
> oracle 26493 1 2 15:56:43 ? 0:03 ora_s000_test
> oracle 26481 1 6 15:56:43 ? 0:18 ora_pmon_test
> oracle 26495 1 0 15:56:43 ? 0:00 ora_d000_tes
>
> What are the d0000, d0001, and s000 processes?
>
Received on Thu Oct 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT