Re: no. of users supported

  • From: raja rao <raja4list@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Allan Nelson <anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:15:19 -0700 (PDT)

The database is a complete read activity. not much inserts.
 
99% of users are doing selects.
 
With this, can we have a guess, to howmany users this server supports.
 
(they wont stay idle, all the time they loggedin , they keep reading the 
things. this is the 
nature of the db)
 
Can we guess the count now ?
 
26+26=52 is fine ?
or any good number near to that ?


Allan Nelson <anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is not a hard and fast rule for situations like this.  OLTP loads can 
vary widely.  Consider for instance Oracle Financials which can be loosly 
characterized as an OLTP load over against a home grown application where say 
52 people are just entering data from say a phone survey.  Those would be very 
different load profiles.

Then  there is the difference between people actively executing sql against 
your database and people who are just sitting there with a connection and not 
executing anything.

The best approach to seeing if this work might be a combination of watching the 
CPU and checking out what your database is waiting on.  For a pure OLTP load 
and 2 CPU's I'd try and stay at or below about 70% of max cpu.  If you go 
higher than that you may well get into queueing where response time for your 
users becomes unpredictable.  Sorry not to give a more difinitive answer but it 
really isn't that cut and dried.

Allan

On 9/28/05, raja rao <raja4list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi All,
 
os: Solaris 2.9 
 
We have a solaris box with 2 GB RAM and 2 cpus. 
 
Is there any rule to know how many oracle connections are fine to work with it 
(mean to say
the oracle sessions on that).
 
I heard it is 26 users per cpu. is this true ? or is there any other principle  
to calculate
how many users concurrently can use this box.
 
(the database is OLTP)
 
Thanks,
Raj



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