Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

Mark,

I am confused by your post.

I have run Oracle on dual, tri, and quad processor NTs and have conducted carefully measured benchmarks. I can state with assurance that Oracle takes advantage of the additional processors when your NT has more than one.

I built a benchmark able to test the system using anywhere from one to eight clients. As you might suspect the time to run a single user's workload remains constant no matter how many processors are in the box, but when running the workload for several users there is a significant difference in the elapsed time required to run the workload and there is a direct correlation between the number of processors and the performance.

I am not sure, but if Parallel Query (not Parallel Server which is an extra cost feature) can be used I suspect that, depending on the nature of the workload, there could be differences in elapsed time even for the single user.

Jerry

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> I was told by an Oracle official that Oracle had a version that could run OPS
> on NT without needing Microsoft/Tanden's Wolfpack which is ( I think) not yet
> available for commercial use. This would seem to imply that Oracle seems to
> think that there will be a market for OPS on the PC platform. I have customers
> that have application that are too big for a one cpu machine, but that really
> do not justify the cost of a 'server' machine from Pyramid, Dec, HP, Sun,
> etc.... OPS on a couple of PC's may just be the answer.
>
> Mark Powell -- Oracle 7 Certified DBA
> - The only advise that counts is the advise that you follow so follow your own
> advise -
  Received on Thu Dec 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CST