Re: Running/Licensing Hyperthreaded Intel Pentium4 Xeon CPU's on Linu

2002-11-20 Thread chao_ping
Orr, Steve, I am using Xeon MP as well on my DELL 6650 , and i have two nodes. I will patch my database next evening and later turn on the logical cpu feature on one node and leave the other node as it is. I will compare the cpu load/application responce time change and

Running/Licensing Hyperthreaded Intel Pentium4 Xeon CPU's on Linu

2002-11-18 Thread Orr, Steve
OK, I've got this new Dell Linux server with 4 Hyperthreaded Pentium4 Xeon CPU's. There are 4 physical CPU's but with hyperthreading the O/S sees 8 CPU's as is reported in top. I've installed Oracle on this machine and it seems to run as if there really were 8 CPU's. Could that be true? Is there a