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Excessive Archive Log Generation with INTERNAL and COMMIT operations (Doc ID 1070861.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 04, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2.0 [Release 9.2 to 11.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

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We see high archive log generation and most of the operations are internal. Using LogMiner, we get a similar output with the one below from v$logmnr_contents:



The internal operations are ten times up to hundred times higher than the normal DML.
Also, it can be observed that the internal operation is generated together with DML on a certain table, or
several specific tables.

Changes

No important changes made in the database. This problem can occur of the sudden.

Cause

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