Re: Adding CPU

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-family_at_home.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 06:21:19 GMT
Message-ID: <zrNe6.366546$U46.10830915@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>

Your hardest task will be upgrading NT. Oracle will see and use whatever processors are present.
Jim

"Bob Lebo" <digitalsurfer39_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%uMe6.3507$5H.554515_at_typhoon2.ba-dsg.net...
> I have a Micron Netframe 3101 server. It is currently a single processor P
> II 400 with 512 MB of RAM. I am running Oracle 8.0.5 on it to serve a
> Records management System. The NetFrame motherboard supports dual P III
550
> processors. I plan to take on the task of upgrading the server hardware
and
> moving the Windows NT 4.0 Server kernel from Uni-Processor to
> Multi-Processor in the very near future.
>
> My question is, will this affect the Oracle Database application in any
way?
> I know there were some entries in the .ORA files in 7.X.X releases
referring
> to the number of CPUs that could not be set manually. I want to do the
> upgrade as seamlessly as possible, but really don't want to go through the
> process of exporting the full database, removing the Oracle installation,
> upgrading the OS and hardware, then re-installing Oracle and importing the
> database again. It could take quite some time....
>
> Thank you in advance for your support.
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 03 2001 - 00:21:19 CST