Re: Negative ramifications of setting CPU_COUNT lower?

I know of several Sun/Oracle customers who have successfully
implemented the CMT stuff and have replace some fairly large systems
(15K, 6800/6900, etc) with the new T5540 or similiar.

Part of the problem as I see it is that many people don't seem to
understand the trade offs for the CMT processor line.  I usually tell
people that if they have a throughput based workload (lots of sessions
doing lots of short transactions) then it works well.  Its akin to
having a 4 lane freeway at 80 MPH compared to say a 12 lane freeway at
40.  Depending on how many lanes you can keep "busy" with cars, the
wider, slower road may move more cars in a fixed time period.  It
should be fairly obvious then if there is only a few number of cars,
then the faster/fewer option is better.

So instead of being scared of something, I think its much better to
explain and understand the trade offs and why it is so.


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Allen, Brandon
<Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have no experience with changing cpu_count, but I do have a little
> experience with running the Oracle database on T-series and I can sum it up
> in two words: “Run away!”

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