Re: hardware sizing question

Hi,

to say it very carefully: 256 MB RAM seems not be really much. One HardDrive is also "suboptimal" :-)

Well you do not say much about the system you are running and how you access the DB and what you are retrieving from it (all HTML-content? Only a bit of data? Much reads, much writes? Are you using connection-pooling? What is that processing? etc...).

Although you should think about letting someone analyze this in detail you will at least make friends with:

• Use different machines for Web/Application-server and Database-Server
• Put more RAM into it (*4 up to *x dependend on the result of the analysis)
• Put more different disks into it (at least one for system and 2..x for the DB and some more for application/webserver etc.
• Think about RAID (if neccessary. You did not say anything about needed stability, availability etc.)
• Listen to your new admin ;-)

Peter

"John Smith" <linux_at_home.com> wrote in message news:<N2329.123214$WsS.110553_at_news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>...
> Hi All,
>
> thank you in advance.
>
> I don't know about Oracle, unix. Let me try to explain our situation.
> We have Sun Ultra5 Work Station. This machine has the following
> configuration:
> Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz) with 256MB RAM
> One HD, Seagate Medalist 34342A, 4.3GB, 4500rpm
> No tape Drive.
>
> We are trying to run a Web Application on this machine. This machine should
> support the following:
> Oracle 8.0.5
> Netscape Web Server V 3.61 or 4.1
> Tuxedo V6.2
> A custom server
>
> Applications are not transaction intensive. Basically upload a file into
> database through a browser and process it.
> In the database we have 50 tables with 10 packages. We have 20-30 pro*c
> programs. We have more than 150 dynamic html pages.
>
> Do you think this machine support 100 users? What are our thoughts? Our new
> system admin says this is a joke.
> How many users this machine support? We have 2 more workstations like this.
> Clustering is possible (using NFS)?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Sherob
Received on Thu Aug 01 2002 - 08:14:17 CDT