Re: CHECKPOINTS QUESTION

From: Geoff Ingram <lsgvi02_at_chsrh1.agw.bt.co.uk>
Date: 1996/10/08
Message-ID: <325A2B30.357_at_chsrh1.agw.bt.co.uk>#1/1


Alexander Bardos wrote:
>

 => What happens when an instance runs out of db buffer cache blocks (
> unmodified ) and there are only dirty blocks available?
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DBWR also flushes dirty blocks under conditions other than a checkpoint: when a DBWR timeout occurs (every 3 secs) when dirty buffer length reaches a threshold to free up some buffers on the LRU list

see Oracle7 Server Concepts

Geoff Ingram



All my own personal opinions Received on Tue Oct 08 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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