Power units are history.
You can renew them, but you can't buy more. It's by CPU or named user per server. Jared On Thursday 18 April 2002 14:20, Seefelt, Beth wrote: > I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure you still pay by power units. a 4 > x 200Mhz costs the same as a 1 x 800Mhz. > > I agree to some extent, but fewer and faster should not be a hard and > fast rule. There are other things to consider, like how many concurrent > cpu intensive processes are running on the system. On a single cpu > system, it only takes 1 bad query to hog the entire system, with 2 cpus, > they can only suck up 50% of it at most...and can your application > benefit from parallelism? > > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:44 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > I may be blowing smoke out my back side but here is my opinion: Fewer > and Faster > > Reasons: > > I think Oracle has started to license by cpu instead of the power units > thing. So if it is cpu number, then fewer and faster is cheaper. > > Oracle also "was" and may still be licensing based on maximum box > capacity. So if you have 2 machines that are both 4 way (4 cpu's > installed), but machine one max'es at a 4 way and the second machine > max'es at a 10 way, you pay more for each license on the 10 way than the > 4 way even thought the 10 way is using just 4 cpu's. Doesn't make much > sense to me but that's how pricing worked last fall. > > From an OS level, when cpu's are added it's a diminishing return issue. > So historically a "4 x 800mhz" is faster than a "8 x 400mhz". > > > > Brian P. MacLean > Oracle DBA, OCP8i > > > > > > YTTRI Lisa > > <lisa.yttri@cn To: Multiple recipients of > list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > h.com> cc: > > Sent by: Subject: Number of CPUs vs. > Speed of CPUs > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > om > > > > > > 04/18/02 08:58 > > AM > > Please respond > > to ORACLE-L > > > > > > > We are in the process of sizing a new server for multiple Oracle > instances. What factors are useful as input in determining how many CPUs > and the relative speed of them? For example, do we want fewer, faster > CPUs or do we want more, slower CPUs? Are there any good guidelines to > determine what the number of CPUs should be? > > Thanks in advance - > Lisa -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
