Re: Responsiveness of Server at high CPU load

"Rick Denoire" <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote in message news:dvp1uvk7c2ga7de95msll5e7ie47snjvb9_at_4ax.com...
> "Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote:
>
> >In this case, you may want to provide some memory information. What is
the
> >RAM size and how much of it Oracle is using? The heavy swapping could be
an
> >indication of memory shortage. On Linux systems I have also seen kswap
going
> >crazy even there is no memory shortage.
>
> OK, here we go.
> 4 GB RAM, about 3.5 were used by four instances, two of them 8.1.7,
> the other two 9.2.0.4. Number of concurrent users: perhaps 3 at max.
> (these are mostly test instances, used by specific developers for
> specific issues).
>
> >
> >I would suggest you to stay with major UNICES, at least for production
> >systems. Despite of all the hypes around Linux, there are still many
things
> >to be improved, memory management being one of them. Hopefully we will
see
> >some of them in 2.6.
>
> I tend to get nervous when I read that. We have spent more than
> 100,000.-$ doing the transition to the new Intel/Linux platform
> (bilding a SAN with state of the art technology). I hope you are wrong
> with your suggestion...
>
> Bye
> Rick Denoire
>

I hope so too if you have got both feet on Lintel. Have you applied the lastest patches? I would be interested to know if you find a solution. Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 20:43:11 CST