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General Guideline For Sizing The Online Redo Log Files (Doc ID 781999.1)

Last updated on JUNE 28, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.4 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This note provides the general guidelines for online redo log file size, you may see messages like below in alert log file if redo log size is not adequate :

Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence XXX
Checkpoint not complete

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