Stress my CPU's

  • From: "Robertson Lee - lerobe" <Lee.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:39:02 -0000

Hi,
 
Oracle 10.2.0.3
AIX 6.1
 
I have been asked to do some stress testing and it is causing me stress
;-)
 
I need to really hammer the CPU's on the box as we want to test
dynamically allocating CPU's from another partition to handle the
increased workload. 
 
I am having difficulty getting the CPU's maxed out or indeed to even use
more than 2. 
 
I have been running cartesian joins with various hints (parellism, using
hashes etc) but just cannot get the relevant amount of work generated.
It tends to spike at about 80% on a couple of CPU's then the result set
comes back after about 30 secs and CPU useage then obviously drops. This
is a T & D server with 16 CPU's on it. Are there any clever tricks out
there I can use to simulate a full on workload??
 
TIA
 
Lee
 
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