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Re: is CPU insufficient ? [message #220809 is a reply to message #220764] |
Thu, 22 February 2007 04:06 |
gintsp
Messages: 118 Registered: February 2007
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I'd say that 100% CPU absolutely doesn't mean that one needs more CPU power. Most of the time it means that CPU power is used inefficiently and/or simply wasted. At least from my exprience every time when I observed very high CPU (speaking of DBs of course) it was due to:
1) excessive full scans (may very weel be also due to excessive use of index scans instead of full scans)
2) excessive parsing
3) doing unncessary looping in pl/sql
I think that nowadays at least for most DBs the main bootleneck is I/O (or should be I/O if code is properly written). Of course there may be exceptions
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu
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