When patching, decide on how many CPUs

When deciding on your worker processes, you must know how many CPUs you have then "add two"
On Linux:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l
8
This is the "number of CPUs"
To get the number of "cores"
grep "^core id" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l
4
To get the number of "physical CPUs"
grep "^physical id" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l
1
So, how many CPUs are we using?
I would like to best utlilize resources for an upcoming patch session, and the CPU question has always been a grey area for me...
Thanks
11.5.10.2
Linux Red Hat 5
11.2.0.3
DA

Hi Dan,
Workers should be twice the number of processors available in the server during the patching process, and the workload is distributed amongst workers and Oracle take cares of it.
Please refer ntoe:
How To Select Number of Workers Based on Number of CPUs When Running ADPATCH (Doc ID 226191.1)
Hope this helps!!!
Best Regards

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How many cpus on server are allocated to client

hello,
its not an issue rather doubt which is hunting me from last 2-3 days.
My 10gR2 Oracle database running on
Widows server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Processor ----> intel Xeon cpu [email protected] GHz (4 processor)
RAM------>8GB
its a dedicated server.
Actually i was going through the AWR report whn one of the client came to me with slow database performance during some time interval.
when i had a look at the Top 5 Timed Events in Report it showed me the
Sql*net message from client      834.35si told them to run their query so that i can have trace of that.
then time event showed me something nearer to above and our database was taking only 15 sec to carry out the task.
i told them that
"you application/client is taking 834 sec to tell our database to do something.But once the database got your application's request to carry out something, the database is taking only 15 sec to provide you with the result"
so they asked me to justify that the problem is with application side/machine side.
After digging in a lot on the internet ground, chatting with my colleges on cell phone and running through many threads specially Asktom.oracle.com, i got really confused.
They came up with varied opinions which kept me thinking again & again over the same thing.
In one of his(Thomas kyte) thread the discussion was as follows.
The output of tkprof when the developers run the same program on their PC shows a big difference in
SQL*Net message from client.
The SQL*Net message from client from my tkprof is almost 4-5 times theirs.
Could you please advise what might be the cause of that?
Thanks
Followup   August 25, 2009 - 9am Central time zone:
that could mean.....
your machine is slow (their desktop cpus blow your server cpus away) as much as anything.
since their code is not instrumented, try SQL*Net trace (with TIMESTAMPS) can be helpful to check out the time in the network between the client and server. See Note 16658.1 - see if you experience radically different response times on the various machines.
4 stars   August 25, 2009 - 2pm Central time zone
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Reviewer: Jaklin Ekdawi
My Database server is T5120 with 4 core 1.2 GHz Ultra SPARC T2 processor (from O/S it is seen as 32
CPU * 1.2 GHz).
Their PC has 2 CPU * 4 Ghz.
Based on the above, How come their PC is more powerful than my server?
The ASH Report for the execution period of the program shows ¿CPU + Wait for CPU¿ is the top event,
however, tkprof shows ¿SQL*Net from client¿ is the top event waited on.
Top User Events
Event        Event Class    % Activity    Avg Active Sessions
CPU + Wait for CPU     CPU             81.66        0.14
log file sync             Commit             5.92        0.01
db file scattered read     User I/O     2.37        0.00
Can you please explain why there is a difference between tkprof and ASH report?
Thank You
Followup   August 25, 2009 - 8pm Central time zone:
I only care about a single cpu, your client program is not using more than one.
I often downloaded stuff from my big bad sparc to my desktop because my desktop was many times faster than the sparc.
look further down in the ash report - sqlnet message from client is an idle wait, we tend to ignore it as it is the time we spent WAITING FOR THE CLIENT.
Their pc looks a lot faster than your server since you are only using a single cpu - your client is not multi-process. It only uses a single cpu.
4 stars   August 25, 2009 - 2pm Central time zone
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Reviewer: Jaklin Ekdawi
Sorry, I forgot to say that during the execution time the cpu on the server was 98-99% idle based
on (using top and sar).
Thanks
Followup   August 25, 2009 - 8pm Central time zone:
I agree, because you could not use 31 out of 32 cpus, I would expect it to be almost idle.
97% idle would mean a single cpu was 100% used. So, it sounds like you were using almost 100% of that single cpu you had access to.
and it isn't as fast as their pc.
4 stars   August 25, 2009 - 10pm Central time zone
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Reviewer: Jaklin Ekdawi
The tkprof from the developer's PC is below
OVERALL TOTALS FOR ALL NON-RECURSIVE STATEMENTS
call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
Parse      122      0.39       0.68          0        403          0           0
Execute    122      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Fetch      396      0.09       0.11          0      25354          0         274
total      640      0.48       0.80          0      25757          0         274
Misses in library cache during parse: 122
Elapsed times include waiting on following events:
Event waited on                             Times   Max. Wait Total Waited
----------------------------------------   Waited ---------- ------------
SQL*Net message to client                     763        0.00          0.00
SQL*Net message from client                   763       14.71        312.91
SQL*Net more data to client                   122        0.00          0.00
The tkprof for the running the same process on Solaris DB Server
OVERALL TOTALS FOR ALL NON-RECURSIVE STATEMENTS
call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
Parse      124      0.06       0.03          0          0          0           0
Execute    124      0.04       0.01          0          0          0           0
Fetch      400      0.07       0.10          0        802          0         276
total      648      0.17       0.15          0        802          0         276
Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Elapsed times include waiting on following events:
Event waited on                             Times   Max. Wait Total Waited
----------------------------------------   Waited ---------- ------------
SQL*Net message to client                     774        0.00          0.00
SQL*Net message from client                   774       43.65        964.23
- On Solaris DB server, the CPU is 0.17, however, "SQL*Net message from client" is 964.23.
- On the developer¿s PC, the CPU is 0.48, however, "SQL*Net message from client" is 312.91.
Based on that, how I can approve it is CPU issue?
Followup   August 26, 2009 - 7pm Central time zone:
how about this.
have the developers write something that mimics what they do without the database in it. Same sorts of loops and processing they do in the code in the client.
run it on their machine
run it on yours
You'll find your big bad server has cpu's that are extremely slow compared to the desktop machine.
Hence - the time spent waiting for sqlnet message from client is - time spent in YOUR client on YOUR server processing the data returned from the database.
saying "the cpu 0.17 on one and 0.48 on the other" is meaningless, they are completely different cpus with completely different performance characteristics.
And that you have 32 of them - no use to you, you use one..
It looks like your server is about 2-3 times slower then their test machine.
5 stars SQL*Net Message from client may not be an issue from the app   May 28, 2010 - 8am Central time zone
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Reviewer: Thierry B from Paris, France
Hi,
I just read your post as I experienced the exact same problem. I found something that fixed this
problem for me, my sqlnet.ora contained that line after an oracle upgrade:
TRACE_LEVEL_CLIENT=16
I don't know how it came there. But it was the cause of my problem (too long idle time). I simply
removed it and no more wait events.
I hope it can be of any help for anyone.
Followup   May 28, 2010 - 8am Central time zone:
that is a client side issue though, isn't it. It is an application side issue, not a database side issue.
5 stars   April 15, 2011 - 10am Central time zone
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Reviewer: A reader in this thread Tom insisted that the client has access to only 1 CPU on the server even though the questioner told him that his machine is having around 32 CPU'S.
so this thread was the source of my confusion.
i kept asking myself "if the client application has access to one cpu out of 32 cpu's on the server on which the database server is running,then What is the use of multiprocessor? my oracle/client application has access to only one cpu on the server(like Tom said), what other 31 cpu's on the server machine are upto?if one cpu is getting exhausted by the client Application request, then what the other processor are doing ? are they not meant for load balancing?"
when i had a chat on cell phone with my colleagues regarding the oracle access to the cpu's on the server, then they told me that if there are more number of cpu's then the the response time would be fast cause workload is divided among the multiple processor to carry out the task in parallel.
Again i got confused with the deferring opinion..
so just want to have clarification on
* how many processes do i have access to on server machine where my oracle is installed?*
how many processes do the client applicaiton S/W/client machine have access to out of 32 processors?
is workload devided among the cpus on the server ,in case of huge request from the client application?
thanks & i hope my doubt would be cleared

Look at it in basic terms (forgetting for the moment about Oracle and SQL*Net and specific s/w itself).
A process is loaded into memory. This process contains machine code instructions. How many CPUs can execute these instructions?
Only 1.
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MS12-063 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP
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Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - September 2012 (KB890830)
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Jim Koerner
Server - ZCM 11.2.1 w/MU2 and Internal Database on Win2008R2x64
Client - ZCM 11.2.1 w/MU2 on Win7SP1x64
"Massimo Rosen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 26.09.2012 11:26, Shaun Pond wrote:
>> Eumetsatzcm,
>>
>> I see 2
>> MS12-063 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7
>> x64 (KB2744842)
>> MS12-063 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 9 for Windows 7
>> x64 (KB2744842)
>>
>
> Well, in that case indeed one is missing. Above is technically one update
> (see identical KB Number). What's missing at least is the Updaterollup for
> ActiveX Killbits, (KB2736233), released September 12th.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...visory/2736233
>
> There were other patches released this month, but those aren't critical
> security patches. I'm not sure if ZPM is supposed to contain them or not.
> Above one however needs to be there.
>
> CU,
> --
> Massimo Rosen
> Novell Knowledge Partner
> No emails please!
> http://www.cfc-it.de

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NEW info:
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Starting Services
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Actually, it's kind of hard to tell you what to replace. If you have a spare hard drive laying around, go for it. It also could be memory issues (I have the same model as you) & it was my sister-in-law's notebook before I get it. The notebook had several memory dumps that CCleaner found & deleted when I was working on it.
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Once I got it, I placed the 6GB RAM back in there that I had, & also replaced the HDD with a extra Crucial M4 that was laying around. Right before swapping drives, I ran HD Tune (free) on the original, there were yellow attributes, meaning that it had issues pending. It's a 500GB Seagate HDD that runs at 7200 RPM. Just so happened, I lost a 500GB Seagate Barracuda desktop HDD (7200.11) less than a month ago. Booted the computer, the screen stated "No Operating System found".
So it could be either the HDD or memory (RAM). Or worse yet, the MB itself. Has it been dropped? Notebooks are fairly durable, but they don't take to being dropped very well. Does it run hot? If so, there may be severe dust buildup that's causing it to overheat, that will make it BSOD. My guess is that's it's one of the first three that I mentioned above & if it's the MB, forget it. Prices are too high, even for used ones & in a notebook, it's basically a total teardown to replace it. If it's a new MB, it may cost between $200 to $400, depending on popularity of the model. That's too much to pay to repair a computer built in 2010.
I'm trying to give some suggestions here, based totally on personal experience on my & other's computers that I work on. However, online it's a cat & mouse game. I don't want to tell you to purchase another HDD unless it's almost 100% certain that's the issue. Which is why I asked if you have a spare earlier. Also, try reversing the position of your memory sticks (a 5 minute job), it's behind that lid close to the battery underneath the notebook.
Post back if you need further assistance. Someone else may have other ideas, so follow the thread.
Best of Luck,
Cat

Can I decide how many times my iphone rings?

When I get a call from somebody can i decide how many times the iphone rings before it goes to voicemail?

Cell phones do many things I don't care about, and iPhones do more things than any of them.
To each his/her own but my experience with cell phones is the complete opposite which goes way back when they were mounted in your car only. A range of features or settings I don't want or care about and if I happened to come across an available setting I might be interested in, it was a chore to return to the location where the setting was available since the user interface was so very poor. I continue to use a Razr 3m with Verizon for business and what a joke in comparison to me.
The iPhone does not do this so don't buy one if this feature is very important to you. At least you checked beforehand. No point in purchasing such a device that doesn't meet your needs or wants.
If not, then why not? I really want a good answer to this.
Not sure why not - maybe because this isn't a very common request. I've never used a cell phone that included such a feature. Apple doesn't answer questions here - this is a user to user help forum for technical support issues and questions only so we can only assume Apple chose not to include it or probably didn't even consider it but you can check with the provider regarding the number of rings allowed before a call goes to voice mail and if available, this would probably be a universal setting only - not by designated caller.
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