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New Background Processes In 12c (Doc ID 1625912.1)

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APPLIES TO:

Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

PURPOSE

This article provides information on new background processes introduced in 12c

A complete list of background processes can be found in the Oracle Documentation:

https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/REFRN/GUID-86184690-5531-405F-AA05-BB935F57B76D.htm#REFRN104

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* BWnn There can be 1 to 100 Database Writer Processes. The names of the first 36 Database Writer Processes
are DBW0-DBW9 and DBWa-DBWz. The names of the 37th through 100th Database Writer Processes are BW36-
BW99. The database selects an appropriate default setting for the DB_WRITER_PROCESSES parameter or adjusts a
user-specified setting based on the number of CPUs and processor groups.

* FENC (Fence Monitor Process) Processes fence requests for RDBMS instances which are using Oracle ASM
instances

* IPC0 (IPC Service Background Process) Common background server for basic messaging and RDMA primitives
based on IPC (Inter-process communication) methods.

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* LDDn (Global Enqueue Secondary Service Daemon Helper) Helps the LMDn processes with various tasks

* LGnn (Log Writer Worker) On multiprocessor systems, LGWR creates worker processes to improve the
performance of writing to the redo log. LGWR workers are not used when there is a SYNC standby destination.
Possible processes include LG00-LG99.

*LREG (Listener Registration Process) Registers the instance with the listeners

*OFSD (Oracle File Server Background Process) Serves file system requests submitted to an Oracle instance

* RPOP (Instant Recovery Repopulation Daemon) Responsible for re-creating and/or repopulating data files from
snapshot files and backup files

* SAnn (SGA Allocator) Allocates SGA The SAnn process allocates SGA in small chunks. The process exits upon
completion of SGA allocation.

* SCRB (ASM Disk Scrubbing Primary Process) Coordinates Oracle ASM disk scrubbing operations

* SCRn (ASM Disk Scrubbing Secondary Repair Process) Performs Oracle ASM disk scrubbing repair operation

* SCVn (ASM Disk Scrubbing Secondary Verify Process) Performs Oracle ASM disk scrubbing verify operation

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