Hans Forbrich <hforbric_at_yahoo.net> wrote in message news:<4031AF01.7D043F58_at_yahoo.net>...
> Tim Smith wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a low cost, high performance solution on Solaris?
> > We would like to see what Sun hardware/O/S will give us over Oracle
> > on Intel Windows
> >
> > The only requirements that come to mind are the ability to support
> > a) Oracle 8.05 Standard Edition
> > b) 10-14 Disks
> >
> > Any pointers?
>
> Another Apples to Bananas comparison?
>
> You really don't provide much information about your requirements. Why
> are you interested in switching - are you experiencing
> memory/disk/stability/user-count issues?
> You also don't mention what kind of machine you have now, so noone can
> reasonably provide an alternative. For example, a Sun Ultra5 will
> handle Oracle 8.0.5 and 10-14 disks, but doesn't stack up against a
> Pentium-2000.
>
> Since you mention Oracle 8.0.5, which has long been desupported by
> Oracle, you imply that stability, support, availability and performance
> are not a concern. Therefore you will likely be happy with any Sun
> equipment you could get off EBay. I happen to like Sun E250s and E450s;
> they are a decent Oracle workhorse, accept a fair chunk of memory and
> have decent disk subsystem support.
>
> Then again my suggestion would be to consider upgrading - get Oracle9i
> on a Linux box (partially 'cause I'm a Linux believer lately).
>
>
>
> /Hans
There is plenty of memory, I believe most of the performance issues
comes from disk I/O. I feel the memory/process management/file system
I/O would be better handled on UNIX. 8.0.5 is the bear we have.
Received on Tue Feb 17 2004 - 08:05:40 CST
