Ditto. The problem for me is coming up with a scheme to use all those cores simultaneously, or near to it. I'm using 9.2.0.7 on Solaris 10, since that's closest to our production. Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael McMullen Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:18 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores) I'm doing this right now. 1 cpu 8 cores 4 threads per core. Oracle sees it as 32 cpu. To me it looks like a big single point of failure. This is supposed to replace our E6500. I think the E6500 cost us close to a million bucks (including T3 misc hardware). What's the price of a T2000 a couple of grand. The decision on server was not mine to make. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Vlad Sadilovskiy <mailto:vlovsky@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:32 PM Subject: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores) Hello, We are currently evaluating hw replacement: Sun Fire 440 4 processors -> T2000 8 cores. I'd appreciate if anybody could share his/her experience of moving DBs from Sun Fire 440 to T2000, or benchmark comparison for Oracle9i, 10g? Thanks a ton. - Vladimir