Oracle bug, mathematical rounding :) joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Consultant Data Engineering and Administration Nationwide Investments (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 Interested in helping out your marriage? Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus. From: Nigel Thomas <nigel.cl.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: makulev@xxxxxxx, ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 02/09/2009 10:04 AM Subject: Re: db_writer_processes tuning Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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