Hi.
I am running XP Pro.
I have Oracle 10.1.0.2.0 installed.

I had installed a new database (sid?) recently about a gig in table space
size.

I noticed that now my machine just 'cranks' the disk drive for about 15
minutes and it is so relentless that my pc is pretty unusable for that initial
startup period of time.

I did a ctrl-alt-delete to look at task manager and saw that oracle and java
seem to be near or at the very top of the cpu consumption, though I realize
that is not necessarily indicative of what is chewing up the disk accesses.

My suspicion is that it is related to the Oracle installation.

- can someone suggest what to do to figure out the cause of the problem and a
possible solution?

Someone told me Windows is not very smart when it comes to startup order, and
that I should consider starting Oracle manually after I boot the machine.

I'm wondering what else I could do, and I'm not 100% sure which service to set
to manual start, or the best way to start it manually... command line or
gui/services etc.

Thanks

BTW My services look like this right now - I'm not sure why there are three
dbconsoles.. one for each instance/SID required?:

OracleCSService Started Automatic
OracleDBConsolefirst Started Automatic
OracleDBConsolesecond Started Automatic
OracleDBConsolethird Started Automatic
OracleDBConsoleorcl Automatic
OracleJobSchedulerfirst Disabled
OracleJobSchedulersecond Disabled
OracleJobSchedulerthird Disabled
OracleOraDb10g_home1iSQL*Plus Started Automatic
OracleOraDb10g_home1SNMPPeerEncapsulator Manual
OracleOraDb10g_home1SNMPPeerMasterAgent Manual
OracleOraDb10g_home1TNSListener Started Automatic
OracleServicefirst Started Automatic
OracleServicesecond Started Automatic
OracleServicethird Started Automatic
Jeff Kish
Jeff Kish