Hi

I have some question regarding the status of redo logs.
The status are

Active
Inactive
Current

I understand that in archive log mode Active means the redo log is being archived. In a noarchive log mode what would Active mean? This is because I am getting

BYTES MEMBERS ARC STATUS
--------- ---------- --- ----------------
1 10485760 2 NO CURRENT
2 10485760 2 NO ACTIVE
3 10485760 2 NO ACTIVE
4 10485760 2 NO ACTIVE


And it takes a while for group 2 to become inactive, what can this be?