Re: Advice on Hardware requirements for an Oracle Database

From: Aram Kananov <arcanan_at_flashmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:27:19 +0200
Message-ID: <3CB6FCD7.5030203@flashmail.com>

Oracle on linux run stable now,
instead of buying terribly slow sun ultra, buy Intel P4 with with raid card  From my experience my 1 CPU -P4 1500MHz runs a bit faster than sun E250 2CPU 450MHZ u may want to look on http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5840

WBR
Aram Kananov

Daniel Morgan wrote:

> For what you are talking I'd forget about Windows unless you have no UNIX
> experience in-house. What you are talking about could be run on a Sun
> Ultra 5 that you could purchase off eBay for something around $2,000. It
> would save you a lot of money and be far more stable.
> 
> Ultra 5 may be viewed by Sun as a client machine ... but I have supported
> quite a few instances larger than yours with an equal number of users on
> them without a problem.
> 
> Daniel Morgan
> 
> 
> 
> Pedro Robledo Puerta wrote:
> 
> 

>>Hi,
>>
>>we are looking for some advice on what sort of hardware we must use
>>for an
>>ORACLE 8.1.6 release 2 Enterprise database that will consist of 5 main
>>tables with a total of 12,000,000 records of simple data (no images or
>>sounds).
>>
>>Usually, around 20 concurrent users will ask for reports made with
>>joins of 3 or more of this tables.
>>
>>We will be using NT as our operating system on the database server and
>>are
>>thinking to purchase a dual PIII 1GHz, 1 Gb of SDRAM PC133, 2 SCSI HD
>>of 18 Gb with RAID1, and a RAID card with double channel PERC 3/DI
>>with 128 Mb of cache.
>>
>>will this configuration be enough?
>>
>>Any advice would be much appreciated
>>
>>Thanks in advance,

>
> Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 10:27:19 CDT