can you please let us know where the quote is from? I never see this best practice before. 2013/6/13 Josh Collier <Josh.Collier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Hi, > I am trying to validate the following statement for red hat linux 64bit > 5.4, 11.2.0.2: > > It is a best practice to limit the number of operating system processes to > no more than 8 times the number of CPU cores > > > Does this sound reasonable? This would mean on a 32 core system I would be > limited to no more 256 processes to serve my queries. In a partitioned data > warehouse. > > Thanks for your time, > > JoshC. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l