Re: LINUX and Oracle Corp.

RH 2.7 with Oracle 8 and 9 wow!!! where did you get these beasts to work together?

How come Dell Intels outperform Suns. I don't get it?

ltiu

On Friday 02 August 2002 20:03, you wrote:
> 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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