Re: Linux vs. Windows performance.

From: John Gardner <jgardner100_at_REMOVE.hotmail.com>
Date: 19 Feb 2004 21:11:50 GMT
Message-ID: <40352695$0$19707$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

In message <1076700909.575761_at_yasure>, Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> Some but how much may be dependent upon many things including the
> flavour of Linux chosen. Keep in mind that changing the O/S is not
> going to speed up the spin rate on the hard disks or bus speed or
> CPU speed.

True, but such issues as Window's over aggressive paging system (ie it tries to keep too many pages free to speed up application startup because that makes gui programs look faster) is going to impact the beahviour of Oracle. It's not always how fast your disk drive is, but what you do with it.

Regards
John G Received on Thu Feb 19 2004 - 15:11:50 CST