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Chan - 07 Feb 2006 14:25 GMT

I have a question on how oracle consider IBM DUAL or Sun 8 core CPUS.
ie. Consider as dual CPU's and assign two physical process to each CPU?

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hpuxrac - 07 Feb 2006 16:12 GMT

> I have a question on how oracle consider IBM DUAL or Sun 8 core CPUS.
> ie. Consider as dual CPU's and assign two physical process to each CPU?

Sorry I don't understand your question could you supply some more text?

Oracle processes are at the mercy of the operating system. For any os,
the operating system schedules processes to run on cpu's.

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Chan - 07 Feb 2006 19:20 GMT

You got my question, so if os schedule process to run on CPU's, this is
submitt 2 process to each cpu core? or one process echo CPU.

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hpuxrac - 07 Feb 2006 19:40 GMT

I really don't have a clue what you are trying to ask, sorry.

The operating system schedules processes to run.

Normally, while you can force process affinity so that certain
processes run on specific cpu's ( at least for unix based systems ),
this is something that you don't do unless specific reasons force you
to consider this option.

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DA Morgan - 07 Feb 2006 16:49 GMT

> I have a question on how oracle consider IBM DUAL or Sun 8 core CPUS.
> ie. Consider as dual CPU's and assign two physical process to each CPU?

Ask your Oracle sales rep. We can not speak to issues regarding your
licensing with whatever unnamed Oracle product and version you are
inquiring about.

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JEDIDIAH - 27 Feb 2006 20:51 GMT

>> I have a question on how oracle consider IBM DUAL or Sun 8 core CPUS.
>> ie. Consider as dual CPU's and assign two physical process to each CPU?
>
> Ask your Oracle sales rep. We can not speak to issues regarding your
> licensing with whatever unnamed Oracle product and version you are
> inquiring about.

You make it sound like Oracle has custom licensing for every
one of their n+1. Obviously this can't be the case since even this
would not quite scale even for Oracle. So obviously there needs to be
a default model that even someone like you could cite a reference to.

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DA Morgan - 28 Feb 2006 17:55 GMT

>>>I have a question on how oracle consider IBM DUAL or Sun 8 core CPUS.
>>>ie. Consider as dual CPU's and assign two physical process to each CPU?
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> would not quite scale even for Oracle. So obviously there needs to be
> a default model that even someone like you could cite a reference to.

They do. The general licenses change from year to year and many
organizations negotiate custom license agreements. Licenses also must
comply with government laws that change from jurisdiction to
jurisdiction.

Finally, and I would hope rather obviously, the experts on Oracle
licensing are the Oracle reps who manage the account. For me, or you,
or anyone else to comment on a license agreement never read in a
country in which we possibly don't live is, I think, worse than
presumptuous.

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