disk activity when no users/transactions

hello all,

I'm trying to troubleshoot and eliminate or at least, increase the interval at which the harddrive is accessed when absolutely no users or transactions are running on the server. Basically, the drive is accessed about every 3 seconds (or so) and I believe it has to do with the checkpoint process or some other oracle process. Could anybody shed some light on how I can reduce/eliminate disk access when the database is in no use (other than shutting down the instance, which yes, eliminates all further disk accesses)

thanks much,

Cosmin

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