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Background Processes

This lecture covers the various background processes in Oracle, including their main purposes such as writing database blocks to disk, managing redo entries, and performing maintenance tasks. Key processes discussed include Database Writer (DBWn), Log Writer (LGWR), Checkpoint Process (CKPT), System Monitor (SMON), Process Monitor (PMON), Recover Process (RECO), Listener Registration Process (LREG), and Archiver Process (ARCn). Understanding these processes is essential for database management and recovery operations.

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Background Processes

This lecture covers the various background processes in Oracle, including their main purposes such as writing database blocks to disk, managing redo entries, and performing maintenance tasks. Key processes discussed include Database Writer (DBWn), Log Writer (LGWR), Checkpoint Process (CKPT), System Monitor (SMON), Process Monitor (PMON), Recover Process (RECO), Listener Registration Process (LREG), and Archiver Process (ARCn). Understanding these processes is essential for database management and recovery operations.

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What we will learn in this lecture?

▪ What are the Background processes?


▪ The Main purpose of each Background process

DBA 1

Oracle
Background Processes:
bunch of dedicated server-side processes
running in the background

TASKS:
➢ writing database blocks to disk
➢ writing redo entries to disk
➢making sure all of the database files on
disk are synchronized
➢ perform maintenance tasks

DBA 2

Oracle
• Database Writer processes (DBWn )
responsible for writing contents of the database buffers to data files on disk

• Log writer (LGWR)


responsible for writing redo records from the redo log buffering memory into a physical disk

• checkpoint process (CKPT)


This process handles database checkpoints.
An Oracle checkpoint is a database event which synchronizes modified data blocks
in memory from the buffer cache with the data files on disk

• System Monitor process (SMON)


performs recovery during the startup sequence of the Oracle Instance if required.
responsible for cleaning up any unused temporary segments.

• Process Monitor ( PMON)


performs process recovery when a user process or a session fails.
responsible for cleaning up any changes made to blocks in the database buffer cache,
and releasing resources that were previously used by a failed user session.

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Oracle
• Recover Process (RECO)
used as part of distributed database transactions.

Distributed transactions are transactions that involve multiple databases, and should either
commit a rollback on both databases at once.

• Listener registration process (LREG)


It is responsible for registering the Oracle instance with the Oracle network listener.
The listener accepting remote incoming user connections

• Archiver process (ARCn)


It is responsible to copy the Oracle redo log files to a remote storage device after a redo log
switch has occurred

Note: Copying the database relogs to another storage system is very important from a backup and
recovery perspective

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Oracle

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