Oracle ASM 进程之ASMB

在ASM alert日志看到一段话 

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Fri Mar  5 00:03:10 2010 
Starting background process ASMB 
ASMB started with pid=13, OS id=42068 
Fri Mar  5 00:06:19 2010 
NOTE: ASMB process exiting due to lack of ASM file activity

于是初步研究了一下该进程的作用，以下摘录来自 
http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora10g/ASM01.shtml 

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Every database instance that uses ASM for file storage will also need two new processes. The Rebalancer background process (RBAL) handles global opens of all ASM disks in the ASM Disk Groups, while the ASM Bridge process (ASMB) connects as a foreground process into the ASM instance when the regular database instance starts. ASMB facilitates communication between the ASM instance and the regular database, including handling physical file changes like data file creation and deletion. 

ASMB exchanges messages between both servers for statistics update and instance health validation. These two processes are automatically started by the database instance when a new Oracle file type - for example, a tablespace's datafile -- is created on an ASM disk group. When an ASM instance mounts a disk group, it registers the disk group and connect string with Group Services. The database instance knows the name of the disk group, and can therefore use it to locate connect information for the correct ASM instance.

附rdbms、asm instance的后台进程 

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$ ps -ef|grep asmdb 
  oracle  7534     1   0 00:03:16      -  0:00 ora_rbal_asmdb 
  oracle 14186     1   0 00:44:53      -  0:00 ora_o000_asmdb 
  oracle 15268     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:00 ora_reco_asmdb 
  oracle 16016     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:02 ora_smon_asmdb 
  oracle 22202     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:01 ora_mmnl_asmdb 
  oracle 22492     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:03 ora_mmon_asmdb 
  oracle 23238     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:01 ora_ckpt_asmdb 
  oracle 26366     1   0 00:03:13      -  0:00 ora_s000_asmdb 
  oracle 26658     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:00 ora_d000_asmdb 
  oracle 30206     1   0 00:03:11      -  0:00 ora_dbw0_asmdb 
  oracle 30734     1   0 00:03:11      -  0:00 ora_mman_asmdb 
  oracle 35138     1   0 00:03:11      -  0:00 ora_psp0_asmdb 
  oracle 36398     1   0 00:03:36      -  0:00 ora_qmnc_asmdb 
  oracle 36646     1   0 00:03:11      -  0:00 ora_pmon_asmdb 
  oracle 38926     1   0 00:03:19      -  0:00 ora_o001_asmdb 
  oracle 40296     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:00 ora_lgwr_asmdb 
  oracle 41306     1   0 00:03:16      -  0:00 ora_asmb_asmdb 
  oracle 41814     1   0 00:03:12      -  0:05 ora_cjq0_asmdb 
  oracle 42628 21640   0 00:46:18  pts/2  0:00 grep asmdb 
  oracle 43624     1   0 00:03:46      -  0:00 ora_q001_asmdb 
  oracle 43864     1   0 00:03:46      -  0:00 ora_q000_asmdb 
$ ps -ef|grep asm_ 
  oracle 10868     1   0 23:47:53      -  0:00 asm_smon_+ASM 
  oracle 12690     1   0 23:47:53      -  0:00 asm_rbal_+ASM 
  oracle 15494     1   0 23:47:53      -  0:00 asm_dbw0_+ASM 
  oracle 17320     1   0 23:47:53      -  0:00 asm_gmon_+ASM 
  oracle 29354     1   0 23:47:52      -  0:00 asm_mman_+ASM 
  oracle 31422     1   0 23:47:52      -  0:00 asm_psp0_+ASM 
  oracle 31506     1   0 23:47:52      -  0:00 asm_pmon_+ASM 
  oracle 32776     1   0 23:47:53      -  0:00 asm_lgwr_+ASM 
  oracle 34576     1   0 23:47:53      -  0:00 asm_ckpt_+ASM 
  oracle 40514     1   0 00:03:10      -  0:00 asm_o000_+ASM 
  oracle 42630 21640   0 00:46:24  pts/2  0:00 grep asm_

以下简单介绍各个进程的作用 

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ARBx These are the slave processes that do the rebalance activity (where x 
is a number). 
CKPT The CKPT process manages cross-instance calls (in RAC). 
DBWR This process manages the SGA buffer cache in the ASM instance. 
DBWR writes out dirty buffers (changed metadata buffers) from the ASM 
buffer cache to disk. 
GMON This process is responsible for managing the disk-level activities 
(drop/offline) and advancing diskgroup compatibility. 
KATE The Konductor or ASM Temporary Errands (KATE) process is used 
to process disks online. This process runs in the ASM instance and is started 
only when an offlined disk is onlined. 
LGWR The LGWR process maintains the ASM Active Change Directory 
(ACD) buffers from the ASM instance and flushes ACD change records to 
disk. 
MARK The Mark Allocation Unit (AU) for Resync Koordinator (MARK) 
process coordinates the updates to the Staleness Registry when the disks go 
offline. This process runs in the RDBMS instance and is started only when 
disks go offline in ASM redundancy diskgroups. 
PING The PING process measures network latency and has the same 
functionality in RDBMS instances. 
PMON This manages processes and process death in the ASM instance. 
PSP0 This process spawner process is responsible for creating and 
managing other Oracle processes. 
PZ9x These processes are parallel slave processes (where x is a number), 
used in fetching data on behalf of GV$ queries. 
RBAL This opens all device files as part of discovery and coordinates the 
rebalance activity. 
SMON This process is the system monitor and also acts as a liaison to the 
Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS) process (in Oracle Clusterware) for 
node monitoring. 
VKTM This process is used to maintain the fast timer and has the same 
functionality in the RDBMS instances.