I think that if you have 100% CPU usage you need to tune the application, but since you are already doing a rewrite adding CPU's seems in order. You probably will need to increase memory as well and you may find new bottlenecks, but I will try to solve one bottleneck in time. Yechiel Adar Mehish > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DENNIS WILLIAMS" <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:34 PM > Subject: Effect of adding more CPUs > > > > List - We are trying to guess the benefit from doubling the CPUs on a > > server, from 2 to 4. Will this increase the performance or just result in > an > > I/O bottleneck? This server supports a production application and the > season > > of heavy usage is approaching. A development team is writing the > replacement > > application, so we are just looking at something to increase the capacity > > for this season. In addition to Oracle, a piece of the application runs on > > the server. > > During the production season, the CPU remains pegged at 100 percent > most > > of the 24-hour cycle. But if you look at the overall Oracle wait times, db > > file sequential read is about 80% of the wait. I have read Cary's book and > > suggested running a 10046 trace, but would like input on the best > approach. > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l