Re: obvious bugs with 10.2.0.2 and aix5L

On Aug 3, 6:19 am, Ben <bal..._at_comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 9:09 am, Steve Howard <stevedhow..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 3, 8:40 am, Ben <bal..._at_comcast.net> wrote:
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> > > For the most part we finally got our problems worked out. We had to go
> > > from 4 Cpu's to 8, but that seems to have done the trick.
> > > It would be nice if there were some kind of guide ( maybe there is and
> > > I haven't seen it ) as to system requirements when moving from version
> > > to version. Something along the lines of how much memory and cpus are
> > > needed for this size of database on this os with this many users. I
> > > know it would be hard to generalize but they should at least be able
> > > to tell us what the minimum requirements for a setup would be. I've
> > > had a case open with Oracle for 3.5 weeks now and they finally said
> > > that the increase in kernel code has just maxed out our system. I
> > > guess we were floating on the edge and the upgrade was just enough to
> > > push us over.
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> > You know, this kind of bothers me. Oracle's solution is to pay them
> > an additional $160K per year?!!! I know you probably don't (or
> > shouldn't) pay sticker price, but it's a constant in terms of
> > comparison discussions between customers.
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> > I also know they aren't obligated to tune your entire app, but telling
> > you to buy more CPU's for the same application when the only thing
> > (apparently) that has changed is their software?!!
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> > "We may be headed down a bad road here..."
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> Well, in our case we don't license by cpu with oracle, ibm on the
> other hand we do. But yes, it is pretty ridiculous

Still wish you had mentioned which process had the high cpu.

jg

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