RE: Limiting CPUs on SUN
- From: "Justin Cave (DDBC)" <jcave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:48:11 -0600
CPU_COUNT won't limit Oracle to running on a subset of CPU's.
If my reading of the Oracle licensing materials is correct (I don't even
play a lawyer on TV), Oracle ignores any software partitioning in place
when assessing license fees. If you have X+14 CPUs, Oracle will do its
best to assess X+14 CPU licenses.
Justin Cave
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfson Larry -
lwolfs
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:37 AM
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Subject: Limiting CPUs on SUN
Wanted to check on this.
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Client (Currently 8174) discovered they're only licensed for X CPUs
where they have X+14. They want to limit this to be in compliance and
still run associated apps.
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Someone's looking at CPU_COUNT which I don't think really works at
limiting anything. I've seen it set higher than actual by some DBAs,
but didn't hear what benefit that really was.
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Sun does have a psrset command I just heard of. Will that do the job
for
them?
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Thanks
Larry Wolfson
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We did this on TRU64 but we had to modify the OS ourselves. Not a
popular decision.
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NAME
psrset - creation and management of processor sets=20
SYNOPSIS
psrset -a processor_set_id processor_id...=20
psrset -b processor_set_id pid...=20
psrset -c [processor_id]...=20
psrset -d processor_set_id=20
psrset -e processor_set_id command [argument(s)]=20
psrset -f processor_set_id=20
psrset [-i] [processor_set_id]...=20
psrset -n processor_set_id=20
psrset -p [processor_id]...=20
psrset -q [pid]...=20
psrset -r processor_id...=20
psrset -u pid...=20
DESCRIPTION
The psrset utility controls the management of processor sets. Processor
sets allow the binding of processes to groups of processors, rather than
just a single processor. There are two types of processor sets, those
created by the user using the psrset command or the pset_create(2)
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+2.0%2F%2FEN;localinfo=3Dpset-create-2;type=3D> system call, and those
automatically created by the system. Processors assigned to user-created
processor sets will run only LWPs that have been bound to that processor
set, but system processor sets may run other LWPs as well.
System-created processor sets will not always exist on a given machine.
When they exist, they will generally represent particular
characteristics of the underlying machine, such as groups of processors
that can communicate more quickly with each other than with other
processors in the system. These processor sets cannot be modified or
removed, but processes may be bound to them.
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