We have ORACLE 9i and 10G on LINUX servers (Redhat AS4). We plan to purchase 4 CPU SMP server, but we only have two ORACLE CPU licenses. I knew other databases like Informix you can setup configuration file parameters (like NUMCPUVPS=2) for CPU usage. Does ORACLE have similiar function? If NOT does LINUX support similiar function (like limit ORACLE can ONLY ise 2 cpu)? Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l