mrvajrala
You are absolutely right and I can control faster recovery with FAST_START_IO_TARGET.

On another note the vendor (developer/dba) who comes and go and used to manage the database never tune this system before I was hired and noticed excessive log swithes about
269 to 634/day.

I just resized the online redo logs and this is the 2nd business day that I am monitoring the log swithes.

Thanks