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Oracle 9x on standard Redhat 7.3 (2.4.18) kernel. Motherboard holds max 16
gigs RAM.
What is the max memory I can put into this beast, and have it be useable to Oracle for buffering I/O, e.g. the SGA, buffer cache, etc.?
I assume that since pointers are 32-bit types, the max is prob 2GB, maybe 3GB, since not the full 32-bits is useful to applications.
Application is currently on SQL Server 2K, and I estimate the working set is about 10GB. (SQL Server has Address Window Extensions, which swap pages of buffer in and out of a 32-bit address range, enabling usage of massive amounts of buffer). Not sure if Oracle on Linux has such a feature.
Thanks,
TR.
Received on Sat Jun 22 2002 - 08:58:34 CDT