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What are the Back ground processes in Oracle?There are a number of background processes running. Each process is used for a specific job.
SMON - system monitor process is used to clean temporary segments and crash recovery of a crashed instance.
PMON - process monitor is used to clean all resources acquired by a failed process.
DBWR - Database writer is used to write “dirty block” to data files from the buffer.
LGWR - Log writer is used to write the redo log buffer from system global area to online redo log file.
MMAN - Memory manager process is used to manage the memory.
ARCn - Archiver 0-9 is used for writing the online redo log files to the mentioned archive log destination after a log switch has occurred.
CKPT - checkpoint process using the checkpoints information signals the synchronization of all database files. Used for database consistency and faster database recovery.
LCK0 -9 - LOCK process is used to lock shared resources for manages the global enqueue requests and the cross-instance broadcast.
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