Scott, > I think where it makes sense is when you have something like a report > server where the result sets may be huge, but the parellel load is load, > i.e. 5 or 10 users tossing around 100 Meg or more at time.
I've found that that question makes the difference between using 6% & 12% ... particularly large data transformations ... but not higher than that. And I've had ample opportunity to test on 2 reporting servers. For one thing, with very large reports one tends to have a lot of I/O binding, which is handled by the kernel. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly