RE: Hyperthreading - Oracle license

  • From: "Jorgensen, Finn" <Finn.Jorgensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:09:15 -0500

At my company on a Sun T5240 host which reports 128 CPU's due to extreme 
hyperthreading, I had to restrict CPU_COUNT otherwise running utlrp.sql as part 
of new database creation spawned so many parallel threads it brought the server 
to its knees.

Thanks,
Finn


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Bobak, Mark
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:34 PM
To: Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx; rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Hyperthreading - Oracle license

Actually, a quick MOS search, and Oracle specifically recommends staying w/ the 
"doubled" count for cpu_count.

See Doc ID 289870.1

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:24 PM
To: rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Hyperthreading - Oracle license

If you find something like that, shoot it out to me.  I'd be interested in 
making sure if I need to set anything like that.

Regards,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Rich Jesse
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:09 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Hyperthreading - Oracle license

Chris writes:

> I love irony - I just got asked about turning hyperthreading on for 
> our db servers.  Apparently it was cut off (I didn't even know we had
> it) because no one wanted to pay for the extra licensing.

Yeah, but thought I read somewhere that CPU_COUNT should be manually set to the 
number of "real" (non-hyperthread) cores to prevent the instance from 
over-allocating resources (e.g. parallel query).

Durned if I can locate that bit of mental flake at the moment...

Rich

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