Re: Memory for Personal Oracle 7

kimmng_at_eskimo.com (Kim Ng) wrote:

> : Personal Oracle 7 requires 16MB of memory minimum according to the
> : documentation. Does anyone know whether its possible to run it with
> : 8MB or 12MB and a program like Ram Doubler or something similar - on
> : Win 3.1 ? or does it really have to do with 16MB?
 

> Avoid it if you can. You may end up with lots of GPF or its equivalent
> and have to do recovery. Even with 16 MB it is very slow. I am using
> 486SX with 16 MB and it took about 3-5 minutes to bring up the database!
> SQL*PLUS response time was more than 10 seconds unless you are using
> the same statement (ie cached data).

I also am running on a 486sx with 8mb and a 16mb swap. My response times are actually a little quicker than yours, but I did do some extensive modifying of the init.ora to scale things down... I'll certainly agree that my setup is not the speediest but it is functional. I didn't know that PO7 supported the microsoft GPF standard ;-)

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Chris Kasten
Programmer/Analyst (among others...)

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