I'm not a hardware guy or sys admin person so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Leaving out all other variables(such as IO), should I expect performance to be the same in a databse if the server it is riding at is at 90% cpu usages as opposed to 10%? since there would still be spare cycles? Or is there a declining returns as you get closing to the maximum available cpu usage? -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l