What is up with ISM?

From: No Spam Please <nospam_at_foo.bar>
Date: 1998/06/05
Message-ID: <6l8oru$l5j@nnrp3.farm.idt.net>#1/1

I just turned up a system with

    Oracle 7.3.3
    Solaris 2.6
    2 Processor Sun UE 3000
    512MB RAM
    Veritas Volume Manager (38 drives)
    Veritas File System

and it is a pig. Somebody mentioned that it is so slow because Intimate Shared Memory (ISM) is not available on this configuration.

My question is does ISM really provide that much of a performance boost and, if so, when will Sun provide it or why don't they provide it?

The "pig" reference is in comparison to a uni-processor Sun 150 with less RAM, fewer drives, no-striping, etc.

Thanks! Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT