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<title>Distributed Lock Manager</title>
<h1>Distributed Lock Manager</h1>

The Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) enables
    <a href="sc/ops">Oracle</a>
processes running on different
    <a href="sc/node">nodes</a>
to synchronize database access.  The DLM is designed for high
availability - if a process or node crashes, the remaining nodes do not
have to be shut down and restarted.  A quick reconfiguration of the DLM
internal data structure is performed to recover from such a failure.
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