Re: SPARC vs. RS/6000 - which has better performance/processor?

We have both SPARC and RS6000 boxes. There IS more to it than just processors. Both have benefits and drawbacks. But to give a blanket figure of twice as fast is just plain wrong.

Terry

Rodd Holman wrote:

> Making this call on processor alone is not a good thing. A lot of
> factors go into Oracle performance. What is the I/O comparison between
> the machines, amount of RAM, backplane configuration, etc.? A sales
> drone just spouting off on processor speed (true or not) doesn't give you
> a complete picture of reality. I would have a hard time buying the 2:1
> thing though.
>
> Rodd Holman
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 5/10/01, 1:16:30 PM, Chris Rezek <crezek_at_dotclick.com> wrote regarding
> SPARC vs. RS/6000 - which has better performance/processor?:
>
> > We are looking at new servers for our Oracle8i OLTP back-end. An IBM
> > sales guy claimed that an RS/6000 is 'twice as fast' per processor
> > running Oracle8i in an OLTP environment - a 6 processor RS/6000 is just
> > as fast as a 12 processor SPARC.
>
> > What do y'all think about this?
>
> > Chris
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