Re: Oracle 8i on Solaris 2.6 - memory requirements

Philip Brown wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2000 11:13:40 -0400, BlueSax_at_Unforgettable.com wrote:
> >Philip Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 23 May 2000 12:54:04 -0400, BlueSax_at_Unforgettable.com wrote:
> >> >Does anyone have a good rule-of-thumb for estimating how much memory
> >> >would be needed on a Solaris 2.6 server running Oracle 8i?...
> >>
> >> Assume you need a minimum of 256 megs of RAM.
> >> If you are actually doing something intensive with the server, you'll
> >> probably need more.
> >
> >I have 512M. I'm trying to make a case for 1G.
>
> well, in that case, I'd say just install the thing, with lots of swap space
> on it. Put your data on it, and then simply see how much virtual memory
> gets eaten up.
>

Under some circumstances I'd agree with you. In this case whatever hardware I have on the day that I install Oracle is all I'll ever have unless the customer agrees to an SOW addendum with attendent costs. If at all possible I'd like to justify the memory requirements based on an algorithm that I can present in a technical design document that is presented with an SOW. Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT