Re: CPU not used when multi-threaded

  • From: Christo Kutrovsky <kutrovsky.oracle@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:34:02 -0500

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 ?

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Christo Kutrovsky
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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.
>
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