Re: rotating listener.log

"Peter van Rijn" <p.vanrijnREMOVE_at_THISzhew.nl> wrote in message news:<uvr1t27shk401a_at_corp.supernews.com>...
> The alert.log is NOT being kept open. For every singles write to the file it
> is opened before, and closed afterwards. If oracle doesn't find the
> alert.log when trying to open it, it is created instead.

Hi, Peter,

alert_SID.log is kept open all the time by background processes (see below). No server process (shadow process) writes to this file.

/app/oracle/admin/pdev/bdump>fuser alert_pdev.log alert_pdev.log: 5937o 5935o 5933o 5931o 5929o 5927o

   5925o 5923o 5921o 5919o
/app/oracle/admin/pdev/bdump>ps -fp
5937,5935,5933,5931,5929,5927,5925,5923,5921,5919

     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD
  oracle  5933     1  0   Sep 29 ?       320:22 ora_snp1_pdev
  oracle  5923     1  0   Sep 29 ?       31:26 ora_lgwr_pdev
  oracle  5937     1  0   Sep 29 ?       517:32 ora_snp3_pdev
  oracle  5927     1  0   Sep 29 ?        2:12 ora_smon_pdev
  oracle  5931     1  0   Sep 29 ?       383:58 ora_snp0_pdev
  oracle  5929     1  0   Sep 29 ?        0:01 ora_reco_pdev
  oracle  5935     1  0   Sep 29 ?       440:20 ora_snp2_pdev
  oracle  5925     1  0   Sep 29 ?       11:06 ora_ckpt_pdev
  oracle  5921     1  0   Sep 29 ?        5:20 ora_dbw0_pdev
  oracle  5919     1  0   Sep 29 ?        0:01 ora_pmon_pdev

Yong Huang Received on Mon Dec 16 2002 - 11:54:57 CST