Re: stop chugging hard drive

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1144786844.732604_at_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?

I dont think any of those facts are relevant. Re software options I said I set up with default options. If you can tell me any differences between the 10g versions regarding my issue I will personally give you a tufty badge.

I'll work it out myself and let you know what to change for future reference.

Cheers ;-) Received on Wed Apr 12 2006 - 07:35:01 CDT