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When Dirty Blocks written to Disk ? – Oracle Architecture

  • June 21, 2021
  • Posted by: Ankush Thavali
  • Category: Oracle DBA
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When Dirty Blocks written to Disk ? - Oracle Architecture

  1. When a server process cannot find a clean, reusable buffer after scanning a threshold number of buffers, then the database writer process writes the dirty blocks to disk.
  2.  When the checkpoint takes place, the database writer process writes the dirty blocks to disk.