Re: Personal Oracle7 Slow

From: Doug Bitting <dbitting_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 09:28:05 -0800
Message-ID: <dbitting-1502950928050001_at_dbitting-powermac.us.oracle.com>


In article <D3yFG5.Kv0_at_nvl.army.mil>, bajones_at_astro (Ebeth Jones) wrote:

>What really amazed me was that Personal Oracle 7 is slower than
>my old Oracle 5.1. A query from the 5.1 database took about 3
>seconds between hitting return and having it start spewing out
>the results - the same database and same query took about 25
>seconds in Oracle 7 (on a 486 DX/100 with 8 M RAM).

I think you answered your own question with that last bit of information in parenthesis. If your machine has only 8MB of RAM, you are going to spend a lot of that 25 seconds swapping.

--Doug

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Doug Bitting
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Received on Wed Feb 15 1995 - 18:28:05 CET

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