oracle server creation process question in regards to inst startup
I'm am looking at mandatory auditing which I know is on by default and can't be turned off and creates files for connections using sysdba and instance startup operations. I see that the files which are created have the server process id in them, i.e. 557. I understand why there are two pid 557 files opened, (one for sys dba connection and one for the startup command), but why are there two other aud files created for just a startup operation? Is that because the oracle instance creates two more server processes during startup? Why is that? Does Oracle need