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Re: hyperthread advice needed

From: astalavista <spam_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:01:26 +0200
Message-ID: <428d9882$0$27834$626a14ce@news.free.fr>


> If you are planning to run a typical multi-user
> type of environment, it is probably better to
> enable hyperthreading - this allows Oracle to
> see you have two (logical) CPUs and use some
> code paths that maximise concurrency.
>
> If a very large fraction of your work is going to
> be effectively single-user, single-stream, massive
> CPU crunching, then you may get some benefit
> by disabling hyperthreading as there seems to be
> a scheduling overhead at the CPU level when you
> hyperthread, and you don't want this if you are
> trying to run just one big CPU task.
>

Thanks Jonathan for you answer ... Received on Fri May 20 2005 - 03:01:26 CDT

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