hael Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:09 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Oracle Licences Req on Intel Xeon CPU
2000 only shows 2 CPUs because it cannot take advantage hyperthreading.
From what I have read (Intel's website, some others),
Title: RE: Oracle Licences Req on Intel Xeon CPU
Yes Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 does support hyperthreading.
Its not to bad either. I ran some tests and we get about a 15% increase in performance with hyperthreading turned on.
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From: Michael Brown [mailto:[EMAIL
2000 only shows 2 CPUs because it cannot take advantage hyperthreading.
>From what I have read (Intel's website, some others), hyperthreading
requires both BIOS and OS support to be utilized. Currently, XP and the
newer Linux releases are all that I have seen that will take advantage of
it.
My re
Depending on the OS, Microsoft has different CPU counts. The Windows
2000 family
counts each hyper thread as 1 CPU. In contrast, Windows XP and Windows
2003 Server
count each CPU instead of each hyper thread. Thus, the task manager in
Windows XP
Professional show 4 CPU's (on a dual XEON CPU c
Hi all
For those that are running or intending on running Oracle on
Intel's Xeon CPU, the following information may be of interest to you.
The Xeon CPU has a feature called Hyper Threading with double the number
of registers. This feature when turned will present to the Operating
Systems an ad
