"Matthias Hoys" <idmwarpzone_NOSPAM__at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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>> "Steve" <saustin_at_hsius.com> wrote in message
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>>> Installing Red Hat was a pleasure (love it) but need to
>>> progress to the next step in our project where we have identical
>>> servers runing 9i one W2k, on Red Hat. W2k is up and smoking. Our
>>> fondest hope is that we can prove that 9i on linux is faster by 5x (8i
>>> on linux was 7x).
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>> If you can show that, then almost certainly you have shown that you
>> understand Linux and do not understand Windows.
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> 7x faster with the same hardware ? Seems a bit irrealistic to me. What
> exactly is 7x faster ? How did you migrate the db ? With export/import ?
Just to be clear, it wasn't me that was hoping for linux to be '5x faster',
but Steve. Me - I'd expect two well configured systems with those os's to
perform within 25% of each other (i.e end-users wouldn't notice), with linux
being somewhat more scalable. This is 'expectation' not demonstration.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 14:06:06 CDT
