What happens next when a server process is not able to find enough free buffers to copy the blocks f - To reduce I/O contention, the DBWn process does not write the changed buffers immediately to the disk. They are written only when the dirty buffers reach a threshold or when there are not enough free buffers available or when the checkpoint occurs.

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Question: What happens next when a server process is not able to find enough free buffers to copy the blocks from disk?

Answer: To reduce I/O contention, the DBWn process does not write the changed buffers immediately to the disk. They are written only when the dirty buffers reach a threshold or when there are not enough free buffers available or when the checkpoint occurs.

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Question: What happens next when a server process is not able to find enough free buffers to copy the blocks from disk?

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To reduce I/O contention, the DBWn process does not write the changed buffers immediately to the disk. They are written only when the dirty buffers reach a threshold or when there are not enough free buffers available or when the checkpoint occurs. Source: CoolInterview.com

the server process ask DBWR to write the changes to disk in order to free the space in buffer cache. Source: CoolInterview.com

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