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Re: Oracle performance on Windows NT - is it really so bad?!

From: David <darussell_at_email.msn.com>
Date: 1998/03/14
Message-ID: <uchNRz2T9GA.303@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>#1/1

In my experience Oracles performance in NT and Sun Solaris is very similar at the low end (i.e. up to 4 CPU's). The main problems with NT systems is usally that they ship with very slow I/O controllers / disk systems. I was involved in a benchmark recently where a 4 CPU NT box out performed a 4 CPU Solaris box, but as soon as 8 CPU's were introduced the roles were reversed and the margin was substantial. It may also be a User Limit on NT as most Oracle / NT instances get stuck with virual address space fragmentation arround 800 users.

Regards
David Russell

aroesch wrote in message <35092E95.61AFCC02_at_raie.de>...
>We migrated our Oracle database to Windows NT to get a hand on
>performance behaviour. We figured out that even on a $20K Intel Server
>with 256 MB RAM Oracle seems to be terribly slow!
>
>Is this what the world expierences using NT as a backend operating
>system - or are we just to dump to install Oracle on NT right? By the
>way, a comparisson with an old $3K Sun Sparc with 128 MB RAM reveiled
>that this machine is yet faster than NT!
>
>Any commnets to this?
>
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 14 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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