Re: Background Processes and I/O

> I thought they all did, except CKPT which tells DBWn to do it, and PMON
> which only works with memory structures.

If you are on 9i, you can measure the RAM used by the Oracle background processes:

select

   program,

   pga_used_mem, 
   pga_alloc_mem, 
   pga_max_mem 

   v$process; Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 08:07:14 CST