Re: How Many CPUS??

Actually I checked Oracle Store first and 25k a pop was referring to Enterprise Edition, but in GBP not dollars. Whatever currency you add it up in its expensive - especially if adding more CPU makes the app run slower :(.

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Simple mathematics. Oracle Sales style.

If one license costs 18k, and a second license costs 22k how much does it cost when you need to upgrade from one to the other. Answer 14k. Good job its near the end of the financial year - otherwise we might really have gotten stung.
</rant>

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Hans Forbrich" <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net> wrote in message
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> Niall Litchfield wrote:

>

> > Check the utilisation using the appropriate OS utility.

> >

> > adding CPU is expensive (like 25k a pop for licenses to start with) and

if


> > the CPU is not the bottleneck quite likely counterproductive. What is

the


> > problem and why do you suspect cpu?

>

> Your 25K a pop - if talking US Dollars, you are referring to Standard

Edition,


> right?  If so - watch the licensing on that ... according to the rules,

one of


> the features of enterprise edition is the ability to legally run on a

machine


> capable of more than 4 CPUs. (see http://oraclestore.com, look at Standard

> Edition, check user minimums, click on the note identified by the

caveat. )


>

> I agree with your statement to check ... and your question ...

>

> If OP is not getting distribution across all CPUs, perhaps he's using

Standard


> or does not have parallelism properly initialized.  Good - albeit now

obsolete


> - discussion in OReilly's "Oracle Parallel Processing" book.

>