Quote Originally Posted by apfaunts
Hello,
I have a question – what is the largest number of oracle databases run on a Sun Fire E2900 server, with 24 1.35GHz processors and 48GB of memory. These processors are Sun's new dual-threaded CPUs, sometimes called dual-core. Each oracle database will have average of 512 MB SGA and average 800 processes. Only oracle will be running on the server, no other applications.
Please share your thoughts and experience.
Any answer is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Alla Pfauntsch
How big is your swap file? Why don't you start with, how many applications do you need to support? There is a certain amount of overhead for every instance. Just because you might be able to support 48 instances on a box, doesn't mean that you should run 48 instances on a box.