Small thing: (16 + 7)/8 = 3, not 4 WTF? 2009/2/9 Milen Kulev <makulev@xxxxxxx> > Hello Vladimir, > as fas as know, according to Oracle the optimal count of DB writer > processes is > "(CPU_COUNT+7)/8". For 16 CPUs that would give you 4 DB Writer processes. > I have used this setting (also with VxFS), and there were no problems. > > HTH. MILEN > >