I wonder what Oracle's licensing plans are for CPUs that are: Hyper-threading, dual-core. Anyone has any insights to share? Richard On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:21:15 -0500, Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hermant, > > > How does Oracle on Linux treat Intel CPUs with HyperThreading ? > If you have a busy system that is not bound on physical IO, Oracle > treats them badly :). > > Its a matter of how the operating system treats them. > I'll assume for a minute that you are talking about RHEL 3.0 ES Update > 2- but this could be for any Linux. > > During boot, the OS maps the run queue of the logical CPU to the physical CPU. > In this manner, if the number of processes that are running is less > than or equal to the number of physical CPUs, then the logical CPUs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l