Re: Memory Requirements for Oracle 8.1.6 on Solaris Platform

From: Jeff Hunter <marist89_at_excite.com>
Date: 2000/07/04
Message-ID: <8ju2tc$61k$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net>#1/1

Depends. What size is your SGA currently? Are your hit ratios adequate?

Sure, 8.1.6 uses more memory. If your database is running more than fine, you might be able to get away with the 700M. If you are maxed on your current box, you probably need to look at upgrading anyway.

Jeff Janousek <janousek_at_bu.edu> wrote in message news:8jte43$qrm$1_at_news3.bu.edu...
> I need to purchase a new Sun machine to run Oracle 8.1.6 for about 60
users.
> The old Solaris machine (2 RISC chips) has ~700 megs of memory running
> Oracle 7.3.
>
> Any recommendations for minimum memory vs. reasonable memory? How about
> processors?
>
> thanks
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 04 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT