Oracle BPEL running on multi-processor/multi-core using one core

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At a site we have running Oracle BPEL on OAS (10.1.2), AIX 5.3 LPAR with 10 cores (5 processors). Shortly we have an noticable load on the system, which revealed that Oracle BPEL seems to be bound to one processor. Therefore the other processors are hardly used. Can this be solved by re-configuring OAS or Oracle BPEL to use multiple processors for separate threads or Is this an Oracle Application Server or Oracle BPEL limititation and should we install multiple OC4J's to make effective use of the processors.
Cheers,
Peter

Oracle® Process Manager and Notification Server Administrator's Guide
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)
B13996-02
5.2 OC4J Minimum Configuration
The following lines represent the minimum configuration for OC4J. Default values are assigned to all other configuration elements and attributes for OC4J.
<ias-component id="OC4J">
<process-type id="home" module-id="OC4J">
<port id="ajp" range="3301-3400" />
<port id="rmi" range="3101-3200" />
<port id="jms" range="3201-3300" />
<process-set id="default-island" numprocs="1"/>
</process-type>
</ias-component>
Oracle® Application Server Release Notes
10g Release 3 (10.1.3.2) for Microsoft Windows
Part Number B32199-03
4.1.1 Limited Management Support for Multiple-JVM OC4J Instances
With Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.2), you can configure any OC4J instance to use multiple Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). You can perform this configuration change by using the Application Server Control Console or by setting the numprocs argument in the opmn.xml file to a number greater than one (1).
The opmn.xml file is located in the following directory in your Oracle Application Server Oracle home:
ORACLE_HOME\opmn\conf\
To set the number JVMs in the Application Server Control Console, see "Creating Additional JVMs for an OC4J Instance" in the Application Server Control online help.
To set the number of JVMs by editing the numprocs argument in the opmn.xml file, refer to the following example, which shows the numprocs entry you must modify:
<ias-component id="OC4J"> <process-type id="home" module-id="OC4J" status="enabled">
<process-set id="default_group" numprocs="2"/>
</process-type>
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Note, however, that this feature is not supported by Application Server Control. Specifically, Application Server Control (represented by the ascontrol application) cannot run on an OC4J instance that is running multiple JVMs. As a result, be sure that you do not configure multiple JVMs for the administration OC4J instance (the OC4J instance that is hosting the active ascontrol).If you choose to configure the number of JVMs for the administration OC4J to more than one (1), then you must use command line tools to manage your Oracle Application Server environment. For example, you must use:
admin_client.jar for deployment, re-deployment, undeployment, start and stop applications, and shared library management
Apache Ant for deployment, redeployment, and undeployment of your applications
opmnctl commands for starting, stopping, and other life cycle operations on the Oracle Application Server
Further, if you are using multiple JVMs on the administration OC4J and, as a result, the Application Server Control Console is not available, then you must make any Oracle Application Server instance configuration changes manually. Manual configuration changes often require you to shut down the Oracle Application Server instance, manually configure the relevant XML files, and then restart Oracle Application Server.

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