Re: A good OS centric discussion on performance

From: john d parker <orclwzrd_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:56:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20060223035653.63192.qmail@web32603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Don't forget SGI. One of the best performing and best instrumented platforms out there for Oracle databases until Oracle abandoned them. NUMA with CRAYlinks. processes could move from processor memory to processor memory and it just flew.

PS. Oracle please support SGI again...

John

• Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> On 02/21/2006 08:43:58 PM, Tanel Põder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Search for "dynamic instrumentation" or "dynamic binary
> instrumentation" with AIX,
> > HP-UX or other OS keyword.
>
> Tanel, I don't know if you noticed, but whenever an OS or a database
> becomes
> adequately equipped with various diagnostic instruments, it ceases to
> exist or,
> at least, becomes obsolete. That has happened to VMX, MVS, GCOS and
> Dynix.
> Solaris has the best diagnostic instruments of all Unix variants and
> SUN has
> already become a white dwarf. All it needs is Ace Rimmer at the helm,
> to become
> a red dwarf and vanish. By that criteria, Linux is nowhere near
> obsolescence. It
> cannot even do I/O accounting per process. Oracle, on the other hand,
> has great
> diagnostic instruments, which instills fear in my heart.
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> http://www.mgogala.com
>
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>
>

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