Re: oracle on sun solaris

From: Stu <shorsman_at_gmc-uk.org>
Date: 19 Jun 2006 08:38:46 -0700
Message-ID: <1150731526.770457.56610@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>

hopehope_123 wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> We are about to move our current datawarehouse system from redhat
> linux to a sun solaris box. ( 6 dual core cpus, 2 hba , emc disk
> array , raid 10 , 24GB. RAM)
>
> The db size is about 2tb.
>
> Since this is a datawarehouse system , random sequential io is my main
> concern , we also use parallel query heavily.
>
> I have some questions on my mind:
>
> 1. What file system to choose? UFS , Veritas or raw device?
>

If you can wait a couple of weeks for the next release of Solaris and feeling ballsy enough, you could use zfs which is showing significant performance improvements over UFS and also does dynamic striping. Received on Mon Jun 19 2006 - 10:38:46 CDT