Also, what does the output from $ mpstat -P ALL 5 look like? Is the work spread evenly across each core/thread? On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is the profile if you set numa=off in the Linux kernel boot options? > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Zhu,Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We are testing HP DL380 G7 with Redhat Linux 5.4, load it with lots of >> very small SQL (through a jdbc client with 50~100~200 session) continuesly >> issue SQL to database server; It is 2 socket/12 core system with 72gb >> memory; there are still tons of free emmory there; -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l