Re: Dual core sun boxes

You can find the licensing guidelines at oracle.com which includes the following statement (quoted below) regarding dual core machines.

What I find very confusing, is that an Intel chip with hyperthreading enabled will show also show up as 2 CPU's both to the OS (e.g. Linux) and Oracle, yet my boss in a previous assignment said that the Oracle sales rep told him it still only counted as one CPU for licensing purposes. Go figure.

"When counting the number of processor licenses required, Oracle counts all the physical processors in a server where Oracle is installed and/or running. A multicore chip with N processor cores is treated as N processors. For example, a chip that has 2 processor cores on it, would need to be licensed for 2 processors, even though there is a single chip that holds the processors."

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Mark Bole
http://www.bincomputing.com


DEEDSD_at_Nationwide.com wrote:



> Anyone have a daul core Sun database server?

> 

> I'm working on some licensing issues for the dual core machines, and I

> don't have any in house yet to determine how Oracle reports the number of

> CPUs.

> 

> If someone has one, can you run this query and let me know what it returns

> and how many physical CPUs are in the machine?

> 

>       select name||'='||value from v$parameter where lower(name) like

>       '%cpu%count%';

> 



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