[Orca-users] RE: kernel contention

[JV]

Kernel contention is easy to remedy:

You need FASTER 
not more cpus or RAM.

Adrian Cockcroft's explaination (a bit dated, 98 is like a century ago):
http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-08-1998/swol-08-perf.html

Newer OS (Solaris 9) probably wouldn't hurt. Well maybe that's not true. I
work my Ultra I like a sharecropper in the fields, I had to downgrade to
Solaris 8 + CDE from 9+Gnome to get a usable workstation back.

JV



>I am trying to drill down into what kernel contention is and how I
>improve the situation.  Orca is monitoring an Oracle database server

>indicates multiple processors are trying to access the same data.  More
>processors would seem to make the problem worse.  Does anyone have any
>words of wisdom for this behavior?  
 
>Thanks
>Mike