Quite possibly.
In the absence of any other directive, the continuous checkpointing mechanism sets the effective size of log_checkpoint_interval to 90% of the smallest log file. This means you could get a LOT more dirty blocks in the buffer if you increase the size of the redo log dramatically. Since the database shutdown (other than abort) requires a database checkpoint, you would then spend more time writing those blocks to disc.
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:57:36 -0400 From: "Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco" <juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Increasing redo size, increases shutdown time
Hi, does this afirmation makes sense? After I increased redologs to 200mb, to test time of archive, I found the time to shutdown increased to, and it was not switching.
Is there some correlation?
Thank you
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