What exactly in the SAR reports that points you to the fact that the CPU is not used? Why do you expect it to be used ? Do you have 24 parallel sessions doing work? Could it be that your DISK is too busy, thus CPU stays idle ? -- Christo Kutrovsky Senior Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group On 1/18/06, The Human Fly <sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > List, > > For one of our business critical database, we have assigned 12 cpus > with multi-thread(logical) of 24 cpus. What we have noticed that > oracle is not using all the CPU avaibale, at least 4 (8 logical) cpus > are not being utilized. We have checked from OS level using sar report > to confirm the sam during business peak hours. > Is there any limitation with oracle not to use many logical CPUs? > > Your time and advice is highly appreciated. > > -- > Best Regards, > Syed Jaffar Hussain > OCP 8i & 9i DBA, > Banque Saudi Fransi, > Saudi Arabia > http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Christo Kutrovsky Senior Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l