Re: Limit CPU number on ORACLE database??

  • From: "Stefan Knecht" <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 07:45:44 +0200

There is this parameter, CPU_COUNT that you *can* set. Although Oracle
doesn't recommend it be changed - does anyone have any practical experience
with it ?

Stefan



On 5/4/06, Mark Brinsmead <pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Paul,

   Your question is one of laws and licenses, not technology.

   Only with "hardware partitioning", a feature that generally appears in
only very high-end (and high-price) servers, are you able to (legally)
license fewer CPUs than are physically installed in the server.  If your
server happens to be an IBM P520, for example, you can do what you
describe.  With most linux hardware, you cannot (yet).

   Note: you need to thoroughly understand the difference between
"hardware partitioning" and "software partitioning" as Oracle defines it.
The dividing line is quite hazy in places.

--
Cheers,
-- Mark Brinsmead
   Staff DBA,
   The Pythian Group
   http://www.pythian.com/blogs

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