Thanks Gopal, Manroy.. @Gopal: As per my understanding, the event will not downgrade the recovery process to serial, but it will stop SMON doing tx recovery, correct me if I am wrong.. Regards, Saurabh Sood www.askdba.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:11 PM, K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Saurabh, > > IIRC the first one (_smu-debug-mode) disables the tx recovery and the > event just downgrades the process to serial. > > -Gopal > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Saurabh Sood <email2sood@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > Can someone point out the difference between these two things which are > > solving the same purpose? > > Thanks, > > -- > > SAURABH SOOD > > ORA-DBA > > www.askdba.org > -- SAURABH SOOD ORA-DBA