Re: Configuring Oracle for an SMP machine

toadman wrote:
>
> I inquired about configuring Oracle for an SMP server
> (multi processor) and was told that a special version
> of Oracle Server is required. I'm a bit confused
> because I thought SMP processing was a function of
> the OS, not the application (assuming the application
> was fully threaded). Can anyone confirm this? Does
> this mean that Oracle server is not multi-threaded?

By default, Oracle will use all available processors and scale well. Fine tuning is possible (some paramters in init.ora), but not realy required.

There exist a special version called 'parallel server', but has _nothing_ to do with SMP; it means a kind of 'clustering'.

by, jm

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