Re: Re[2]: Oracle on Compaq Alpha under TRU64

Alright..I will throw my towel in too...( Oh Boy ..at last one thread I can say something 'bout :-) )....
I am running on several HP and Compaq boxes and truly compaq sucks...No offence...HP will blow the roof of any compaq machine any time...If you are not getting that performance then there is a problem in your configuration somewhere.
I 've benchmarked several machines for a 500G datawarehouse startup project and I found HP 9000 N class machine to be very good and cost effective ( whatever that means !! ) for the performance demanded .

RS

>From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re[2]: Oracle on Compaq Alpha under TRU64
>Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 06:44:22 -0800
>
>Ok, I'm missing something here. To build and populate a database, from a
>full
>DB export, on the Compaq ES40 that we were demo'ing took in excess of 2
>hours.
>Doing the same on an HP9000 N2000 class took only 45 minutes. I've got to
>go
>back to a very old HP9000 847 to get performance similar to the Compaq and
>at
>that the build/import time was a grand total of 1 hour & 55 minutes. Sure
>the
>Compaq is cheaper that the HP hardware, but for an application that has a
>design
>response goal of less than 5 minutes something here is dead wrong.
>
>____________________Reply Separator____________________
>Author: "Frank Evans" <evansf_at_ohsu.edu>
>Date: 5/5/00 2:54 PM
>
>Oracle on Compaq Tru64 (4100's and ES40's) in our evaluations and
>environment
>are extremly fast. More bang for the buck than HP, Sun etc.
>
>thanks frank
>
> >>> dgoulet_at_vicr.com 5/5/00 11:18:50 AM >>>
>Hey Folks,
>
> The other day three of us from my company went down to a Compaq site
>to try
>out an Alpha 440MHZ machine with TRU64 as the OS. To put matters in a
>short
>sentence, performance was a joke at best. I'm rather inclined to believe
>it was
>the particular machine we were using as it is used for lots of demo work &
>is
>consequently a mess. Do any of you TRU64 users out there seeing the same
>performance???
>
>
>Dick Goulet
>Senior Oracle DBA
>Vicor Corporation
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