[geeks] "Oracle SPARC Supercluster"

[Geoffrey Reed]

On 12/10/10 7:13 AM, "Patrick Giagnocavo" <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> On 12/10/2010 3:54 AM, mail at catsnest.co.uk wrote:
>> ok so how do I convince my boss we need to upgrade our current Oracle DB
>> server:
>> 
>> System Configuration: Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Fire E2900
> 
>>   8:53am  up 470 day(s), 21:10,  2 users,  load average: 2.03, 1.96, 1.89
> 
> A load average of 2 seems pretty high to me ... wouldn't you want to
> have a lower load average?

On a multi proc box, a LA of 2 is not a worry :)  on the T2 series machines
we have we don't start to worry till the LA is > 16 (I'd have to look at the
alerts on our monitoring system for the exact #)