Re: Linux VM Sizing

From: Deepak Goel <deicool(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Sam Stearns <sam(dot)stearns(at)dat(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Joseph Miller II <joseph(dot)miller(at)dat(dot)com>, Thierno Diallo <thierno(dot)diallo(at)dat(dot)com>, Peter Garza <peter(dot)garza(at)dat(dot)com>, Henry Ashu <henry(dot)ashu(at)dat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Linux VM Sizing
Date: 2025-07-29 07:14:26
Message-ID: CA+b7NVXsX-jdhsTQb-jh2VpgUH_UUTCRzQinwi8f8J2LgyF2-A@mail.gmail.com
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CPU, you are good.

Memory, bump it up by 2

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 16:41 -0700, Sam Stearns wrote:
> > We are sizing a Linux VM to migrate our Oracle production database to.
> We are
> > currently running on an Oracle Database Appliance. Oracle CPU / memory
> usage stats are:
> >
> > CPU % usage - 25% of 20 cores / 40 threads (Intel® Xeon® S4314 processor)
> > Memory % usage - 100% usage of 600G SGA
> >
> > Based on the above can anyone give advice as to how to size the CPU /
> memory of the Linux VM, please?
>
> Choose something that is about as strong as the old hardware.
>
> If you find that the old machine is too strong for the current
> Oracle workload, you can also downsize.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
>
>

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