Sorry.. stopped reading this article after the first line: "Oracle Streams is a popular free alternative to Oracle RAC for failover and disaster recovery..." 2006/4/10, ramick <ramick@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I'm trying to get an idea of what hardware will be sufficient to support > streaming an application from our production database. In this effort, I > searched Google and found: > http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_streams_benchmarking_testing.htm > > While I understand the findings, I don't understand the report. > Specifically, why is the Elapsed at 2.62 minutes and DB Time at 74.32 > minutes. I would have thought this due to the number of CPUs on the > system, > but looking further down under "Operating System Statistics" at the > statistic "NUM_CPUS" it is 2. Am I missing something? > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev