hi,susan lam yes ,checkpoint problems. you have IO problem. the DBWR write too slow the disk array is too slow? use AIO or IO slaves ? Best regards msn: biti_rainy@xxxxxxxxxxx a dba from alibaba(china) ---- from the mail----- >I'm running a batch updates on my database and I've >been getting the following messages in my alert file: >"cannot allocate new log >check point incomplete." > >My job hangs waiting on log file switch (checkpoint >incomplete) event. > >I have 8 redo log groups (300MB members). When I did a >query on v$log, all of the log members' archived >status ='YES' except for the current member. So it >appears that the rest of the seven groups have been >archived but yet the database could not advanced to >the next redo log. > >Furthermore, the alert.log does not show frequent log >switches. It switches log every 10mins and about every >5mins, the database complains >about "cannot allocate new log". Does not appear to be >a problem with the number or size of the redo logs. >Anyone has any idea what may be a possible problem? >checkpoint? > >thanks. > >susan > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! >http://my.yahoo.com > > >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > >. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l