Re: Oracle installation

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:20:45 +0200
Message-ID: <d62gke$aek$1@news.BelWue.DE>

pat wrote:
> Mauro wrote:
>

>>Hi,
>>I tried to install Oracle server after downloading 10g_win32_db.zip.
>>I have a 2.4GHz processor and 256MB RAM and Windows XP.
>>
>>There were problems after installation because PC was always writing

>
> disk
>

>>(not enough RAM I suppose).
>>
>>Is there any minimal installation for database server?
>>
>>Thank you.

>
> Why would anyone have only 256Mb of memory for a 2.4 Pentium? The
> machine will never reach its potential. Most developers I know have
> 2Gb or more.
>

And most performance problems I've seen (putting the database stuff aside) resulted from this fact. Developers always crave to have a shiny new machine and forget that anything they produce often has to run on something much older. and slower. With the result that instead of running it crawls.

When I was responsible for purchasing new hardware, I always tried to make sure that what the developers got was less than what the code would run on in production. That way they thought of optimizing before the fact.

No, they didn't like me for that. Why do you ask ;-)

Cheers
Holger Received on Fri May 13 2005 - 10:20:45 CDT