Re: Can anyone advice about AMD Opteron 64-bit

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.nospam.demon.nl>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:37:24 +0100
Message-ID: <4qdtpvkddnsfrnlkp8hj776r1kld0f31jv@4ax.com>

On 28 Oct 2003 01:14:19 -0800, edzard_at_volcanomail.com (Edzard) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I want to increase the total SGA size above the current limit on a
>32-bit Linux/Intel platform. This limit is about 1.7 Gb on a Suse
>SLES8 (United Linux V1.0) installation with Oracle 9iDB v. 9.2.0.3.
>
>Now I consider Oracle9i Database Release 2 for Linux x86_64. That runs
>on the AMD Opteron 64-bit processor (the hammer). This should allow
>VLM, e.g. 4 Gb.
>
>Can anyone advice if this assumption is correct?
>
>Thanks, Edzard Pasma

It doesn't matter. Throwing memory at an untuned application is not going to help you out.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 12:37:24 CST