Re: PC server vs. Sun server

On Sat, 06 Dec 1997 00:18:54 GMT, gedau_at_isa.mim.com.au (George Dau) wrote:

>"David Russell" <user_at_msn.com> wrote:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>]From a number of benchmarks I have been involved in, if the Hardware is of
>]the same specification, then Oracle on NT is usually slightly faster up to
>]about 3 CPU's after that UNIX is the answer. By Hardware of the same
>]specification I mean; e.g both machines have the same number and type of
>]disks.
>
>That's the first time I have heard anyone make that claim. Very certainly I
>have found Oracle on NT to be slower than on Solaris. I haven't been able to
>make comparisons with the same hardware though. A small Oracle database with 20
>concurrent (client/server) users crawls on NT on a dual CPU 128 Meg RAM Compaq
>Proliant.
>
>A 10 Gig Database with usually 150 concurrent users gives < 2 second response

In the past few years, I've worked with Oracle on AIX (RS6000), Open-VMS, Sun Solaris and Nile Pyramid environments. Only the AIX machine was faster than my home PC (Pentium Pro 200, 64MB RAM) for queries (though that may be because that was the only one for which I was DBA and system administrator). Updates were slower on the PC, mainly I think becuase I only have a single hard drive and that is EIDE. Received on Mon Dec 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CST