RE: Waiting for smon to disable tx recovery.

And if you need this approach, a checkpoint before shutdown abort is desirable.

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From: ddorr.cs_at_clearstream.com [mailto:ddorr.cs_at_clearstream.com] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:38 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Waiting for smon to disable tx recovery.

Suppress steps 1 & 2.
You shouldn't use the ABORT option unless neither of the other types of shutdown work.  

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> From: Terrian, Thomas[SMTP:Thomas.Terrian_at_standardregister.com]
> Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 15:07
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Waiting for smon to disable tx recovery.
>
> <<File: ATT37990.ATT>>
> Does anyone else see this in their alert log file when they bounce their
> database?:
>
> Waiting for smon to disable tx recovery.
>
> It is happening more and more at my site. Last night we got it 18 times.
> We do the following each night:
> 1. Shutdown abort.
> 2. Startup
> 3. Shutdown immediate
> 4. Do our backups
> 5. Startup
>
> We get the warning messages during step 3. Each time we get the message
> there is a 5 minute delay so it took us over an hour to bounce the
> database
> last night.
>
> AIX 4.3.2, Oracle 8.1.6.1.0
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tom Terrian
> Oracle DBA
> (937) 221-1647
> Thomas.Terrian_at_standardregister.com
>
>

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