I found our Oracle on HP-UX more stable than the NT one, but not
significantly. We've been running 7.3 for 2 years now. No problems with 50
users, multiple instances.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
Rob Edgar wrote in message <7h2urh$cjb1_at_news.hk.linkage.net>...
>We have 200+ users, 100+ simultaneous.
>
>We have run Oracle on NT for 3 years, first 7.3 then 8 now 8i.
>
>We have a small database, around 5gb.
>
>We had it on what is today a low power machine 2 PentiumPro 180 with 512mb
>RAM. We moved it recently to a double PII 333 as the machine became free,
>and we have plans at some point this year/next year to move to a 4 way
Xeon,
>simply to keep ahead of demand growth.
>
>Performance has been great, response times are what we need and we get no
>complainst from users.It very rarely gets cpu bound. Stability is superb.
We
>have had two crashes in three years and it basically only comes down for an
>upgrade.
>
>Of course everyone's situation is different but from our view to sum up, it
>is rock steady and there is plenty of extra power available in the market
if
>you need..... and most of the NT scare stories stem from UNIX
>administrators<vbg>
>
>Rob
>
>Craig Prusansky wrote in message <3734f2ef.689751686_at_news.flinet.com>...
>>We are planning on upgrading our Oracle installation from 7.3 to 8,
>>and at the same time move it from OpenVMS/VAX 6.2 to NT Server 4.0. I
>>have heard mixed reactions on moving it to an NT platform from a VAX
>>platform (we were told that Oracle is no longer supporting the newer
>>versions on VMS). We were told by some people that on Oracle on NT
>>gets bogged down if more than, say, 30 users are connecting at one
>>time. We have found that any machine that is not capable physically
>>of supporting 30 users will get bogged down no matter what operating
>>system is on it, so we took that with a grain of salt.
>>I would like to hear what people are experiencing with this, whether
>>it be good, bad, or indifferent, and if anyone has suggestions or a
>>"heads-up" of things that we need to look out for when we upgrade.
>>We woulfd greatly appreciate any input that is provided.
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Lt. Craig Prusansky
>>Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue
>>Information and Technology Services
>>20 S Military Trail
>>Fire Communications Center, 2nd Floor
>>West Palm Beach, FL 33415
>>(561) 712-6579
>>cprusans_at_co.palm-beach.fl.us
>>http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/fire/
>
>
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 10:49:51 CDT
