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Oracle on Opteron with Linux-The NUMA Angle (Part VII).
This installment in my series about Oracle on Linux with NUMA hardware is very, very late. I started this series at the end of last year and it just kept getting put off—mostly because the hardware I needed to use was being used for other projects (my own projects). This is the seventh in the [...]
AMD Quad-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle. How Badly Do You Need Enterprise Edition Oracle?
This blog entry is 6th in a series about Oracle on AMD’s upcoming quad-core processor code named “Barcelona.” The following is a link to the other installments on this thread:
Oracle on Opteron, K8L, NUMA, etc
Got Quad-Core? Need Enterprise Edition Oracle?
There is quite a buzz today about Oracle’s changes to software licensing for the database products. [...]
Got Barcelona? How Bad Do You Really Need Enterprise Edition Oracle?
There is quite a buzz today about Oracle’s changes to software licensing for the database products. According to this ZDNet article, the changes are specific to the Standard Edition family of database products. The article refers to Oracle’s multi-core pricing guide which was updated on February 16, 2007. Get out your slide rule and gulp [...]
AMD Quad-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part V). 40% Expected Over Clovertown.
A reader posted an interesting comment on the latest installment on my thread about Oracle licensing on the upcoming AMD Barcelona processor. The comment as posted on my blog article entitled AMD Quad-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part IV) and the Web 2.0 Trolls states:
The problem with your numbers is that they are based on [...]
AMD Qaud-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part V). 40% Expected Over Clovertown.
A reader posted an interesting comment on the latest installment on my thread about Oracle licensing on the upcoming AMD Barcelona processor. The comment as posted on my blog article entitled AMD Quad-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part IV) and the Web 2.0 Trolls states:
The problem with your numbers is that they are based on [...]
AMD Quad-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part IV) and the Web 2.0 Trolls.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I’m learning a lot about the dynamics of this Web 2.0 stuff. I blog here about Oracle-specific AMD Quad-core Barcelona topics only to discover that I’m being slashed over in some reader board of volunteer agoraphobic geeks who spend eleventeen hours a day tweaking out on Red [...]
Gettimeofday() and Oracle on AMD Processors
It is pretty well known that the Oracle database relies quite heavily on gettimeofday(2) for timing everything from I/O calls to latch sleeps. The wait interface is coated with gettimeofday() calls. I’ve blogged about Oracle’s heavy reliance upon the gettimeofday(2) such as in this entry about DBWR efficiency. In fact, gettimeofday() usage is so [...]
Oracle on Opteron with Linux-The NUMA Angle (Part II)
A little more groundwork. Trust me, the Linux NUMA API discussion that is about to begin and the microbenchmark and Oracle benchmark tests will make a lot more sense with all this old boring stuff behind you.
Another Terminology Reminder
When discussing NUMA, the term node is not the same as in clusters. Remember that all the [...]