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Re: Making use of 2 CPUs

From: <cameron_michelis_at_nas.adp.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 05:32:00 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002E2503.20010405051551@fatcity.com>

This is most likely an OS issue. Forking threads across processors is handled by the OS. I know of no Oracle configuration to specify processor affinity. When I called Oracle Support on this a while back, they confirmed that there was no way to specify this.

Does the processor sit idle at 0 percent utilization? If you are noticing that a non-parallelized SQL statement is utilizing a single processor, then this is normal. If you are noticing that the processor is completely idle then you probably need to address a hardware configuration issue.

If someone knows how to specify this, please send me the details and I will post them on my Oracle Resource site for you.

I hope this helps,

Cameron Michelis
www.OracleTuning.com

                                                                                       
       
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Hi folks,

I have noticed that even at 40% machine usage, Oracle is not using the second CPU on one of our servers.

Any idea what the best way to get it to do that.

I understood that DB_WRITER_PROCESSES > 2 was only worth it if you had more than 2 CPUs.


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