I'm running 8i on Solaris 2.8. One one of the instances I have started the archiving and notice there are three archiver processes running and only one seem to dump the archive files to the arch directory. I presume it was archiver process#1, b'cos arch_1_####.

Now my question is how do I know where the other two processes are dumping the files if they were supposed to, b'cos I haven't specified the dest 1-x in my init.ora file.

So what caused these other processes to start and how do I go about finding what is doing what and where?

Though my init.ora set up is
log_archive_start = true
log_archive_dest = /usr/local/oracle/app/oracle/admin/active/arch
log_archive_format = arch_%t_%s.arc

what caused the arc1 and arc2 to start and why arc1 is dumping the files in the arch destination instead of arc0.

Any idea/thoughts?????

Sam