Hey Adrian, Have you tried turning off SMT on your test system? From what I can tell, smtctl can change this on-the-fly. If that's the case, perhaps SMT could be turned off for the duration of your batch job. Probably overly simplistic, but maybe worth a shot. And now to ask my SA about SMT... :) GL! Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:36 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: CPU priority for AIX 5.3 with mixed workload Hi, My customer is running a 10.2.0.2 database on AIX5.3, p590 with 14 Power 5 CPUs and SMT enabled. The day workload is 8000 dedicated user connections plus 5 or so concurrent long running reports. They have an overnight batch job that is CPU bound and taking 8+ hours to run. On an unladen identical test system the same batch job completes in 2.5 hours. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l