Re: Oracle and many users

From: Steven Whatley <swhatle_at_starbase.neosoft.com>
Date: 16 Nov 1994 17:37:44 GMT
Message-ID: <3adg18$1e9_at_uuneo.neosoft.com>

Brian Reed (reed_at_cbict3.att.com) wrote:

: I have a friend who is looking into getting a new system, which will
: run about 80 simultaneous Oracle users. He found someone with a
: 7410, 340Mb RAM, and about 55 simultaneous Oracle users. He said that
: as far as he can tell, this system is memory I/O bound, not CPU or
: disk bound. From what I've heard about Oracle, it is a memory hog,
: so that makes sense.
 

: My friend is considering getting an Alpha platform, but has concerns
: about it, since he has heard the images are twice as big, and thus feels
: the memory usage may be twice as much. He mentioned 1Gb of RAM, which
: at first sounded like a lot, but may turn out to be not enough.
 

: So, if anyone has any experience with Oracle, or just having many
: constantly computing processes at the same time, we'd appreciate
: any info you could give us into the sort of system to look at getting.
: The questions we thought were significant were the amount of memory,
: the type of disk interface to use, and maybe even that the way it is
: tuned would have a big impact.
 

: Thanks,
 

: --
 

: Brian D. Reed Brian.D.Reed_at_att.com

I am cross-posting this to comp.databases.oracle.

Later,
Steven Whatley

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