Re: Oracle 8i Installer *unbelievably* slow

Even with 128MB RAM it's extremely slow compared to the "good old" installer. I realize that Oracle is trying to minimize the development effort by making a portable installation program but giving us this unacceptable performance is disappointing. I wonder if HotSpot could help when they make Java2 version of the program, which could well happen for 8.1.6.

Finn

Damond Walker <dwalker_at_iximd.com> wrote in message news:dXYm3.242$5K4.49428_at_typhoon1.gnilink.net...
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> Brad Aisa wrote in message <379B1E85.8A282925_at_istar.ca>...
> >I have just finished doing some installs of Oracle 8i client for
> >Windows. On my (not too old) Dell Optiplex PC running Win95 with 32M of
> >RAM, it took over two hours to complete the install of Oracle 8i client
> >(including documentation).
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> Try to install it on a 32meg NT box and watch what happens. It isn't
> pretty. :) You can blame the whole mess on a Java I think. It just does
> not like 32 meg machines for real applications (in this case, the Oracle
> installer).
> I did manage to install the Oracle8i client on a 266mhz Pentium laptop
> running VMWare (which allows me to run Windows 95 under Linux quite
nicely).
> The emulated Win95 machine had 32 megs to play with and the install did
take
> about an hour. A whole lot of disk thrashing took place though...
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Received on Mon Jul 26 1999 - 12:33:02 CDT