Re: 11g

From: JT <please_at_nojunk.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:05:22 -0400
Message-ID: <12h0qd3i4agdo3b@news.supernews.com>

DA Morgan wrote:
> JT wrote:

>> Anyone have any ideas of what will be incorporated into 11g? Will it 
>> be another massive bloated pig that will require bigger capacity 
>> machines to be bought obsoleting existing hardware - bought and paid for?
>>
>> Is there anyway to slim down a 10g installation to reduce memory usage 
>> aside from not running em?
>>
>> Can Oracle 8.1.7 or 8i and the latest patches still be downloaded?
>>
>> Thanks

>
> I would hardly call 10g, which fits on one CDROM a bloated pig. But 11g
> will not be substantially different from 10g in terms of hardware
> requirements TTBOMK.
>
> If you are worried about memory usage, I run 10gR2 on notebooks with
> only 512MB RAM, learn to alter parameters in the init.ora/spfile.

Are there any quick and dirty HOWTO links or FAQs that deal with tweaking init.ora to consume less memory without affecting performance drastically?

Thanks Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 17:05:22 CDT