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

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

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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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