Return-Path: Received: from newsfeed.cts.com (newsfeed.cts.com [209.68.248.164]) by naude.co.za (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g3IHwi303979 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:58:44 -0400 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id LAA93724; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b71/bab) via UUCP id 0044854B; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:23:37 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:23:37 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Paul Vallee" Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Paul Vallee" Subject: Re: Number of CPUs vs. Speed of CPUs Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 71; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If pricing is a factor, and you're considering per-cpu pricing, then lean towards fewer, faster CPUs. I think Intel announced a 2Ghz processor this week... :-) Paul --- www.pythian.com -- vallee@pythian.com -- 877-PYTHIAN Smarter than adding another team member, Pythian has new services for supplementing DBAs: get our help with monitoring, 24x7 on-call, daily verifications, storage management, performance and more. ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:58 AM We are in the process of sizing a new server for multiple Oracle instances. What factors are useful as input in determining how many CPUs and the relative speed of them? For example, do we want fewer, faster CPUs or do we want more, slower CPUs? Are there any good guidelines to determine what the number of CPUs should be? Thanks in advance - Lisa -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: YTTRI Lisa INET: lisa.yttri@cnh.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Paul Vallee INET: dbalist@pythian.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).