Will a database server perform better running on 2 CPUs with 16 cores or 4 CPUs with 8 cores?
- by AlexOdin
What I have:
an online financial application (ASP.NET, C#)
at peak we have 5K+ simultaneous users
backend is running on Oracle 11g (active server + stand-by using Active Data Guard). At peak - 4K-5K database sessions
Oracle is installed on Linux 5.8 (Oracle's unbreakable version)
the database size: 7TB
disk storage: NetApp (connected with 10GB…