Hi Cameron,

Oracle can use CPU affinity on NT. <Note:108512.1>
explains steps. 

regards...

--- Martin Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Cameron, I will get the Unix Guy to look at
> it.
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> Martin
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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
> 
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> Hi folks,
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> 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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