mine does... that is: two thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollars rounds up to four dollars ^_^ hth Alan Bort Oracle Certified Professional On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Milen Kulev <makulev@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Nigel, > it is definitely rounding error (2,875 -> 4 ;) ). > It is really pitty that my emplyer dowsn't round up my salary int this way > ;) > > Anyway, the databases are running pretty well even with 4 DB writer > processes. > > Best Regards. Milen > > > Nigel Thomas wrote: > > Small thing: > > (16 + 7)/8 = 3, not 4 > > WTF? > > 2009/2/9 Milen Kulev <makulev@xxxxxxx> >> >> Hello Vladimir, >> as fas as know, according to Oracle the optimal count of DB writer >> processes is >> "(CPU_COUNT+7)/8". For 16 CPUs that would give you 4 DB Writer processes. >> I have used this setting (also with VxFS), and there were no problems. >> >> HTH. MILEN >> > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l