Re: LINUX and Oracle Corp.

Mladen and all,

I have a Dell 2500 with 2 1GHZ Pentium III's, 2 Gig of RAM and 3 30 Gig RAID1 disk on SCSI.

It performs rather well, and will run circles around a lightly loaded 2 CPU Sun 220R we use in production.

This is my own personal little DBA playground, running RH 2.7, Oracle 8.1.7 and 9.2. :)

Jared

On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:03, Gogala, Mladen wrote:
> Yes and no. If you put in a decent new Adaptec (AHA) SCSI III adapter,
> it will be capable of working with a 133MHZ or better motherboard and IO
> will be fast, even faster then on an expensive SUN 4xx servers. Of course,
> we must be aware that people are putting sound, webcams, game ports and TV
> cards into their PCs ant that is never a good idea for a database server.
> Personally, I think that a big SMP PC with a few gigs of RAM and decent
> SCSI or FC/AL disk farm can easily service 2 or 3 hundred users. One would
> still need approximately $10,000 to assemble a piece like that, but before
> that, the prices used to have more zeroes. Of course, there is that little
> added cost of Oracle RDBMS which will be 2 times as expensive as the HW
> it's
> running on and that is really what people don't like.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lembark_at_wrkhors.com [mailto:lembark_at_wrkhors.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:33 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: LINUX and Oracle Corp.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- "Cabansay, Yoyong" <lbcabansay_at_timex.com> on 08/01/02
> > 02:19:10 -0800
> >
> > > regarding the above topic but on a different note, anyone
> >
> > here on the
> >
> > > list that is on an Oracle/HP-UX OS platform for backend and
> >
> > 9iAS/Linux
> >
> > > on the middle tier? problems encountered? gotchas? stories
> >
> > to tell. we
> >
> > > are looking at this configuration right now for our Oracle Apps 11i.
> >
> > Main issue w/ most linux boxes is hardware: PC's stink at
> > I/O due to the Intel motherboard design. The net result
> > tends to be a transfer bottleneck.
> >
> > --
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