Re: Background processes on NT

From: Dr. J. Wang <NO_SPAM.jizwang_at_cc.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 1997/11/19
Message-ID: <64vn91$n39$1@postern.mbnet.mb.ca>#1/1

In article <3474032c.8275147_at_news.dvol.com>, chuckh_at_dvol.com (Chuck Hamilton) wrote:
>I recently inherited an Oracle7 NT database to administer. It looks
>like it's running everything (lgwr, pmon, dbwr, etc.) under a single
>process. Is this the preferred configuration under NT? How can I split
>it up to multiple processes?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>

No, you cann't. NT is not real multi-tasking OS (maybe NT5 will be). Even Oracle 8 is running under a single process, with multi-thread for each background process (SMON,PMON ..., a unix sense)

Jizhong

Jizhong Wang, Ph.D.                   		jizwang_at_cc.umanitoba.ca
Systems Analyst, Information Services
St. Boniface General Hospital			Tel. 204-235-3326
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