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Verifying Oracle Database Parameters for Multiple CPUs in a Siebel Upgrade

Upgrades from: All Siebel releases.

Environments: Development, production test, production.

Databases: Oracle only.

This topic is part of an upgrade process. See How to Perform a Siebel Database Upgrade.

If you have multiple CPUs, verify that the following parameters are set correctly. For information on settings, refer to Oracle documentation:

• parallel_max_servers. To enable use of multiple CPUs, this must be set to a number greater than 1.
• parallel_min_servers
• db_block_lru_latches (Oracle 8i)
• _db_block_lru_latches (Oracle 9i)