Re: NT PERFMON Answer and question

It's a feature of Oracle 8i and you can't AFAIK configure it.

Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Harald Henkel" <Harald_at_Henkel.DAH.UUnet.DE> wrote in message news:95cnmp$gph75$1_at_ID-56141.news.dfncis.de...
> Hi Scott.
>
> "Scott Watson" <swatson_at_datachest.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:95chdb$561_at_NWNEWS.PCT.EDU...
> > I am trying to use NT perfmon to monitor what is going on at the OS
 level
> > and no matter what disk IO statistic I use it is always shows no IO (0
> > reads/writes). (Even when I create a 400 Meg index)
> >
> > Can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong NT4 SP6
>
> Nothing (PerfMon won't do the trick) -
> beside not using DiskMon or FileMon from www.sysinternals.com
>
> It (FileMon) showed me, that Oracle writes to its control files
 ctl1orcl.ora
> and ctl2orcl.ora every 3 seconds on one Oracle 8.1.6.3 installation - for
 no
> obvious reason (since the DB isn't doing much at the moment).
>
> Anybody has an idea what might be going on ?
> (it's WinNT 4 SP5)
>
> Can this be some installation / configuration problem ?
>
> It really looks like a configured interval. It's not "about" every 3
> seconds - it's exactly 3 seconds as far as I can see.
> Where would I configure this ?
>
> Ciao,
> Harald
>
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 01 2001 - 16:46:44 CST