Re: Minimum hardware requirements for Oracle 9i

Well I just bought my own Sun Ultra and HP 9000, each with 512MB RAM so pretty soon I will be able to report my experience with them to the group. Likely also a few frustrations. <g>

Daniel Morgan

Keith Boulton wrote:

> I tried it on a 256M linux machine and it kept hanging even though there was
> plenty of swap space. Of course, it could have been some other problem, but
> adding more memory seemed to fix it.
>
> My point was more about an installer (which after all just copies files
> around) that requires as much memory as a database server that can support
> 10s/100s of users!
>
> damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message
> news:3C76C5D4.86ADD5C3_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> > I have successfully installed 9i on a machine with 64MB RAM under NT4SP5
> so that
> > is not true in all cases. But it certainly is slow with all of the
> swapping that
> > takes place.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >
> >
> >
> > Keith Boulton wrote:
> >
> > > The installer for 9i requires 512M ie more than the database which is
> > > amusing.
> > >
> > > damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message
> > > news:3C767E46.E3A60FE1_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> > > > I could ask why. I just purchased two UNIX mchines this week. Both of
> > > which
> > > > could easily handle 40 concurrent users. And neither one cost more
> than
> > > $1000
> > > > (US). So why Win2000 with XP?
> > > >
> > > > Anyway ... for 40 users you could probably get by with 512MB RAM but
> I'd
> > > go
> > > > with a gig given the O/S. For one user 256MB RAM.
> > > >
> > > > Daniel Morgan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thomas Fricker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We're planning to implement Oracle 9i. I did not find any word for
> the
> > > > > Minimum hardware requirements for Oracle 9i in the Oracle
> documentation
> > > or
> > > > > on the Oracle web pages.
> > > > > We intend to use Windows 2000 or XP on an Intel Hardware.
> > > > > What are the minimum requirements for CPU and Memory in a
> > > Test-Environment
> > > > > (1 concurrent User) and our Productoin-Environment (40 concurrent
> User).
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Thomas Fricker
> > > >
> >
Received on Sun Feb 24 2002 - 19:58:00 CST