Re: Mysterious disk activity

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:13:19 -0000
Message-ID: <934kq3$2df$1@soap.pipex.net>

"Jining Han" <hanj_at_mailcity.com> wrote in message news:932pr5$1an$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <4f456.5885$fC1.38853_at_nnrp1.ptd.net>,
> "John" <john_nospam_at_tolltex.com> wrote:
> > I have an Oracle 8 DB installed on an NT-Server and with no sessions
open,
> > the database accesses the disk about every three seconds. I have
loked
> > everywhere I can think of to find what is causing this but have come
up dry.
> >
> > Any ideas ?.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > John
> >
> >
>
> 'Cause it's NT:)

Reproducible on Unix,VMS etc as well. By default the DB will checkpoint every 3 seconds.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Fri Jan 05 2001 - 08:13:19 CST