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"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
>
> Oracle is then supposed to kill off the additional archiver process, and
> re-spawn them if needed. But I've rarely seen it do it. The additional
> processes seem to hang around for ever, idle. Not sure if that's a (minor)
> bug, or a feature, or operating system dependent.
I've seen this before too, but for the life of me I can't remember what version of Oracle or whether it was Sun or HP/UX. I haven't checked recently, but I was never really worried much about it to begin with... no real harm done except maybe a small waste of resources.
Regards,
Sean M
Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 16:26:55 CDT