Re: Oracle on NT

Also look carefully at you disc subsystem

You need lots of disks, and controllers.

Don't use RAID 5 use RAID 0+1 that is mirrored and stripped.

Better use a real machine like a SUN, HP, COMPAQ Alpha or AS400

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> We are planning on implementing Oracle Financials,

> on NT.  I have looked at a system with 4

> processors 550MHz Pentium III Xeon.  The base

> processor comes with 512K L2 cache.  If I need to

> upgrade to 1MB or 2MB, there is a heavy premium

> attached to it.  Will the 4 processor with 512K,

> L2 cache be enough with 1GB RAM? The number of

> concurrent users would be around 150.  Or do I

> have to upgrade the L2 cache?  I have read some

> where beyond 512K, increasing L2 cache would

> actually degrade the peformance.  Is that true?

>

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