RE: HP-UX 11.0 64-bit?

Do you actually need to use 64-bit Oracle to get a SGA that big? I know that you can put more memory in a 64-bit HP install which is why we went that way but I did not know there was a restriction on how much Oracle could use, regardless of the bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Gregory Conron
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 3:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: HP-UX 11.0 64-bit?

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Are their any particular reasons why you would want to go to 64 bit???
> Is your application 64 bit ???
> What does your aplication vendors say????

For us it's increased SGA. We're running the same version of Oracle and HP-UX as you, but are heading to 64-bit 8.1.6 (64-bit 8.0.5 has a nasty partitioned-table bug, causing end-of-communication-channel errors). We can then bump the SGA from it's current size of ~1.2 GB to about 8 GB (the box has 12 GB ram, and Oracle is the sole purpose of the box. Why not use as much as possible :)

As a bonus we'll get some of the nifty features of 8.1.6

Cheers,
GC

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