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This is most likely an OS issue. Forking threads across processors is handled by the OS. I know of no Oracle configuration to specify processor affinity. When I called Oracle Support on this a while back, they confirmed that there was no way to specify this.
Does the processor sit idle at 0 percent utilization? If you are noticing that a non-parallelized SQL statement is utilizing a single processor, then this is normal. If you are noticing that the processor is completely idle then you probably need to address a hardware configuration issue.
If someone knows how to specify this, please send me the details and I will post them on my Oracle Resource site for you.
I hope this helps,
Cameron Michelis
www.OracleTuning.com
Martin Kendall <Martin.Kendall@ To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rubus.com> <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent by: cc: root_at_fatcity.com Subject: Making use of 2 CPUs 04/05/2001 06:35 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L
Hi folks,
I have noticed that even at 40% machine usage, Oracle is not using the second CPU on one of our servers.
Any idea what the best way to get it to do that.
I understood that DB_WRITER_PROCESSES > 2 was only worth it if you had more than 2 CPUs.
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