Re: Background Processes and I/O

From: Michael J. Moore <NOhicamelSPAM_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:09:15 GMT
Message-ID: <vdmFb.12034$VB2.21282@attbi_s51>

"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:bs4p1v$go8$1$8300dec7_at_news.demon.co.uk...
>
> Smon kicks in every 5 minutes to query ts$ to check
> if any dictionary-managed tablespaces have pctincrease
> non-zero, and then tries to coalesce them. THere are several
> other jobs that smon does which are also visible as standard
> SQL querying, and therefore require normal database read
> requests.
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
>
>

So, is it fair to say that both SMON and PMON perform I/O? Regards,
Mike Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 13:09:15 CST