New Background Process in 11G

This articles will describe the new background processes that has been introduced in oracle 11GR1.The background process in oracle 11.1g  are

ora_pmon_11G
ora_vktm_11G
ora_diag_11G
ora_dbrm_11G
ora_psp0_11G
ora_dia0_11G
ora_mman_11G
ora_dbw0_11G
ora_lgwr_11G
ora_ckpt_11G
ora_smon_11G
ora_reco_11G
ora_mmon_11G
ora_mmnl_11G
ora_d000_11G
ora_s000_11G
ora_smco_11G
ora_fbda_11G
ora_qmnc_11G
ora_q000_11G
ora_q001_11G
ora_cjq0_11G
ora_w000_11G
ora_j000_11G

I compared the 11g processes above with a 10g instance and found that 6 new background processes had been introduced in 11g which are:

ora_dbrm_11G         DB resource manager
ora_dia0_11G          Diagnosability process 0
ora_fbda_11G          Flashback data archiver process
ora_vktm_11G         Virtual Timekeeper
ora_w000_11G        Space Management Co-ordination process
ora_smc0_11G         Space Manager process

However while googling the net, I found that (212-157+1=) 56 new processes were added. I am pasting those here for reference, just in case the original link disappears . In Oracle 10.2 there were 157 background parameters; in Oracle 11.1 there are 212 background processes . The following table shows the 56 background processess that were added in Oracle 11.1

Name          Description
---------    -----------------
ACMS Atomic Controlfile to Memory Server
DBRM Resource Manager Process
DIA0 Diagnosibility Process 0
DIA1 Diagnosibility Process 1
DIA2 Diagnosibility Process 2
DIA3 Diagnosibility Process 3
DIA4 Diagnosibility Process 4
DIA5 Diagnosibility Process 5
DIA6 Diagnosibility Process 6
DIA7 Diagnosibility Process 7
DIA8 Diagnosibility Process 8
DIA9 Diagnosibility Process 9
DSKM slave DiSKMon process
EMNC EMON Coordinator
FBDA Flashback Data Archiver Process
FSFP Data Guard Broker FSF0 Pinger
GTX0 Global Transaction Process 0
GTX1 Global Transaction Process 1
GTX2 Global Transaction Process 2
GTX3 Global Transaction Process 3
GTX4 Global Transaction Process 4
GTX5 Global Transaction Process 5
GTX6 Global Transaction Process 6
GTX7 Global Transaction Process 7
GTX8 Global Transaction Process 8
GTX9 Global Transaction Process 9
GTXa Global Transaction Process 10
GTXb Global Transaction Process 11
GTXc Global Transaction Process 12
GTXd Global Transaction Process 13
GTXe Global Transaction Process 14
GTXf Global Transaction Process 15
GTXg Global Transaction Process 16
GTXh Global Transaction Process 17
GTXi Global Transaction Process 18
GTXj Global Transaction Process 19
KATE Konductor of ASM Temporary Errands
MARK mark AU for resysc koordinator
OFSC OFS CSS
PING interconnect latency measurement
RCBG Result Cache: Background
RMS0 rac management server
RSMN Remote Slave Monitor
SMC0 Space Manager Process
VBG0 Volume BG 0
VBG1 Volume BG 1
VBG2 Volume BG 2
VBG3 Volume BG 3
VBG4 Volume BG 4
VBG5 Volume BG 5
VBG6 Volume BG 6
VBG7 Volume BG 7
VBG8 Volume BG 8
VBG9 Volume BG 9
VDBG Volume Driver BG
VKTM Virtual Keeper of TiMe process.

The following table shows the one background process that was removed  in Oracle 11.1G

Name  Description
--------     -----------------
EMN0 Event Monitor Process 0



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