Re: Wildfire/Oracle/NUMA/QBB affinity on OpenVms/Oracle73

in article xxFf6.249$ts2.11697_at_news2-win.server.ntlworld.com, Snops at simon.maufe_at_virgin.net wrote on 06/02/2001 09:13:

> Hello, this is really an oracle oracle question, not Rdb. I've cross-posted
> to Rdb since I know many participants use Oracle Oracle. My issue is we
> installed a new bigger server, and performance went down! Once we turned off
> 4 CPUs and the users were only on the remaining, the application speeed up!
> We've since discovered there is a 3 times performance penalty when
> a user's process is on 1 QBB, and the SGA is on another. Then the memory
> request goes across a bridge or L2 cache, and there seems to be serious
> problems here.

I was wondering when people would start reporting these kinds of issues :) This is a more complex box than any sales people I can think of have any notion of how to configure/sell ;(

>
> Has anybody encountered this under VMS (I know of 2 other customers
> suffering under Tru64) and especially versions of Oracle before 817 which is
> more NUMA aware. We're on 7336 (don't laugh!)

                            ^^^^  Oracle Financials users are we ?