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BrilloPad replied

16 April 2015, 18:14
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

I've been complaining for weeks

No way!
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MarillionFan replied

16 April 2015, 17:39
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

I've been complaining for weeks to the DBAs here that it "feels like" my Oracle queries are running on 1 CPU. I asked if it was a VM could they beef it up a bit. No dice. It's a real machine with 8 cores and oodles of RAM so should be fast enough.

Today they gave in a little and ran some monitoring software while my queries ran.

Guess how many CPUs were used?

So now I have some suggestions on how to use the other cores, so I have some reading to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KbmunEz0lg
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alphadog replied

16 April 2015, 15:14
And here I was thinking that Germans were hard core
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suityou01 replied

16 April 2015, 14:52
Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post

Shouldn't the question be "Guess how many Cores were used ?" ?

Yes. Well done. Have a
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MicrosoftBob replied

16 April 2015, 14:50
Shouldn't the question be "Guess how many Cores were used ?" ?
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FiveTimes replied

16 April 2015, 14:47
Does this mean you can multi task and stop being the bottle neck ?
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FatLazyContractor replied

16 April 2015, 14:46
KUATB

Go drink some bleach.
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suityou01 started a topic Smug mode

16 April 2015, 14:37
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I've been complaining for weeks to the DBAs here that it "feels like" my Oracle queries are running on 1 CPU. I asked if it was a VM could they beef it up a bit. No dice. It's a real machine with 8 cores and oodles of RAM so should be fast enough.

Today they gave in a little and ran some monitoring software while my queries ran.

Guess how many CPUs were used?

So now I have some suggestions on how to use the other cores, so I have some reading to do.
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