Re: Oracle8 Personal Edition - cpu hog?

Jonathan Gennick wrote in message
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>I don't know about the Oracle8 release. I'm running Oracle8i
>(8.1.5) on a 100mhz Pentium (not a Pentium II even, just a
>Pentium) box, and the CPU is at 3% while the box is idle. I
>have Oracle8i Personal Edition at home on a 450mhz Pentium
>III, and have observer similiar results. I'm not sure why
>you are seeing 100% utilization.
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    I have Oracle8i (PE) running on a 64meg Pentium 200 (NT 4) and the CPU is at about 4% or 5% when not doing anything. Memory usage on the other hand...through the roof! :) CPU jumps a little bit when the VB apps (on my 98 box) hit it but it's been pretty good so far.

    On a side note...(and a bit OT)...how often does Oracle come out with ODBC drivers? I'm toying around with OLE-DB (ADO) and there are quite a few limitations to the native Oracle interface...one book I have suggests using the OLE-DB provider for ODBC as it's a bit more stable and provides more features.

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