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Re: stop chugging hard drive

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:20:46 -0700
Message-ID: <1144786844.732604@yasure.drizzle.com>


Jack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed 10g with the default options and the hard drive is now
> continually chugging away in my ear even when no database transactions are
> active - which is getting on my nerves.
>
> I had set the DB up previously and I had turned off rollback segments or
> redo logs - something like that I can't remember - and the drive only
> activated when the DB was actually processing transactions..
>
> Cna anyone remind me what I must do to the DB to stop the continual disk
> access?
>
> PS foolproof DB data recovery is not necessary.

Which version and edition of 10g?
On what hardware
With what operating system
With what size swap file
And how much RAM?

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Tue Apr 11 2006 - 15:20:46 CDT

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