Re: Software Engineers

From: Gordon E. Hooker <gordonh_at_acslink.net.au>
Date: 1995/07/11
Message-ID: <3tv39g$lvt_at_dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>#1/1

pete_at_pskl.win-uk.net (pete) wrote:

Now back to the original question...

What is SPIN_COUNT?

I am only new to Oracle, but I have done a lot of reading and to date have not found a reference to SPIN_COUNT in Oracle DBA terms.

In the Informix product range SPIN_COUNT is a parameter that can be set to defer context switching when a process is waiting for access to a processor in an SMP environment. It is used within the OnLine evironment. If SPIN_COUNT is set to x the process with retry x times to attach to a processor before a context switch occurs.

I know this is a funny place for such a question and answer, but now you all know.

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