Stephen/Chao-ping, I will side with Tom on this. In a single CPU situation, you want to avoid context switches by _reducing_ the number of processes in a single CPU box. Depending on other stuff such as processor/L2 cache flushing, this can be quite a significant overhead. So PQ on a a single CPU box is essentially a bad idea. John Kanagaraj Oracle Applications DBA DBSoft Inc (W): 408-970-7002
What would you see if you were allowed to look back at your life at the end of your journey in this earth? ** The opinions and statements above are entirely my own and not those of my employer or clients ** -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Steve, I believe what you say, but it seems counter-intuitive. If you only have one cpu, and you start two jobs, then it follows that the cpu needs to split itself to do the work. So, what are we gaining? The CPU can only go so fast and do so much work. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L tom, if the process is IO bound (ie consumes little cpu) then you can achieve a lot. thanks, steve "Mercadante, Thomas F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/12/2003 02:23 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p If you only have one CPU, then is parallel either not supported, or simply a waste of time? I actually thought it was not supported. If you only have one CPU, what do you expect to gain? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L p My experience shows that a parallel degree of less than 4 is nearly always slower than serial. I would recommend tring parallel degree of 4. -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L parallel with single cpu env? Michael Ivanov, Hi, Thanks for your reply. In fact, I builded the index several times like, and the result is persistent across difference test case: So, I think buffer is not the cause of the parallel execution slower. But I really do not get other parameter to tune:( SQL> set term on timing on echo on feedback on SQL> alter session set sort_area_size = 100000000; Session altered. Elapsed: 00:00:00.01 SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging parallel (degree 2) tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:18:01.36 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.16 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:06:48.04 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.06 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging parallel (degree 2) tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:14:51.92 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.13 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging; Index created. Elapsed: 00:06:26.23 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.06 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging parallel (degree 2) tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:14:44.58 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.13 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:06:49.09 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.07 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging parallel (degree 2) tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:14:46.79 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.14 SQL> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging tablespace pqind; Index created. Elapsed: 00:06:44.51 SQL> drop index idx_serial; Index dropped. Elapsed: 00:00:00.07 Regards zhu chao msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.happyit.net www.cnoug.org(China Oracle User Group) ======= 2003-02-12 18:40:00 ,you wrote£º======= >Dear Chao. >Did you try change order of index's creating- first noparallel, second with parallel. I think you will look other results. > >> hi, dba friends: >> some paper said, pqo should only be used in SMP machines, while others >> say, We can also use pqo in uniprocessor machines in some case. I am trying >> to use parallel index creation in the following env: >> >> Dell 1650 with 3 scsi160 disks and 1 CPU and 2G memory. >> Oracle 9.2 >> Table contains 22000000 records,1.2GB >> Table tablespace contains 3 datafiles , 400M, 400M and 600M, on seperate 3 >> disks. Index tablespace contains 3 datafiles, 200M, 200M and 200M on >> seperate 3 disks. >> >> >> SQL> set term on timing on echo on feedback on >> SQL> alter session set sort_area_size = 100000000; >> Session altered. >> Elapsed: 00:00:00.01 >> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging parallel >> (degree 2) tablespace pqind; Index created. >> Elapsed: 00:18:01.36 >> SQL> drop index idx_serial; >> Elapsed: 00:00:00.16 >> SQL> create index idx_serial on viewcount( SID_LIST) nologging tablespace >> pqind; Elapsed: 00:06:48.04 >> This machine is exclusived used my me and It seems that PQO is rather >> slower than single thread. So is it still possible to use PQO on single >> processor machines? Please share your experience and idear. >> Thanks. >> >> Wait event like: >> >> Top 5 Timed Events >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Total Event Waits Time (s) >> Ela Time -------------------------------------------- ------------ >> ----------- -------- PX qref latch >> 48,371 415 40.94 PX Deq: Execute Reply >> 176 340 33.54 PX Deq Credit: send blkd >> 47,704 248 24.47 control file parallel write >> 112 5 .48 PX Deq Credit: need buffer >> 1,835 4 .38 >> ------------------------------------------------------------- ^LWait Events >> for DB: ORA9 Instance: ora9 Snaps: 19 -20 >> -> s - second >> -> cs - centisecond - 100th of a second >> -> ms - millisecond - 1000th of a second >> >> >-- >Best regards >Michael Ivanov, TD "ERA" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: chao_ping INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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