Hey , Got Confusion , I Came Across An Article At This Site " http://distancelearning.ksi.edu/demo/333/cis333.htm"; Its States : Rollback Segments When you issue a DML statement to change data, the server process first saves the old values in a rollback segment. Sever Process....This Happening From The Buffer To The Datafile Or Rollback Segments. How Can U Justifiy This.. Do U Think Any One Can Ask The OTN Guys About It. Thank You. Sheldon. On 5/12/05, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Sheldon > > >I Would Like To Know , If Undo Block Is Brought In The Buffer Cache, > >During An Update.. SO What Process Write The Undo Block [Old Image] To > >The Physically Undo Datafile. > > Just an observation... > > Which processes opened the datafile of an undo tablespace? > > linux:oracle:A920 /u00/app/oracle> lsof /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > oracle 18808 oracle 16uW REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18810 oracle 17u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18812 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18814 oracle 13u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18820 oracle 14u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18837 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18839 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 18841 oracle 16u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 29676 oracle 15u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > oracle 30232 oracle 14u REG 8,17 220209152 327696 > /u00/oradata/A920/undotbs01.dbf > > Ok, there are 10 processes... but if you carefully give a look to the > output only one has a write lock on it (flag "W"), i.e. 18808. > > linux:oracle:A920 /u00/app/oracle> ps -fp 18808 > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > oracle 18808 1 0 May11 ? 00:00:08 ora_dbw0_A920 > > HTH > Chris > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l