I know of several Sun/Oracle customers who have successfully implemented the CMT stuff and have replace some fairly large systems (15K, 6800/6900, etc) with the new T5540 or similiar. Part of the problem as I see it is that many people don't seem to understand the trade offs for the CMT processor line. I usually tell people that if they have a throughput based workload (lots of sessions doing lots of short transactions) then it works well. Its akin to having a 4 lane freeway at 80 MPH compared to say a 12 lane freeway at 40. Depending on how many lanes you can keep "busy" with cars, the wider, slower road may move more cars in a fixed time period. It should be fairly obvious then if there is only a few number of cars, then the faster/fewer option is better. So instead of being scared of something, I think its much better to explain and understand the trade offs and why it is so. On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have no experience with changing cpu_count, but I do have a little > experience with running the Oracle database on T-series and I can sum it up > in two words: “Run away!” -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l