From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Jan 28 13:49:40 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0SJneLY018976 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:49:40 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0SJndem018972 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:49:40 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 2768866FC2; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:48:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31233-06; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:48:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9C03F684A4; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:48:49 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=lq7EH20bX+rTiar9jlYu5TJuwTooijrOXL4W/ySrnseq+meUCj0iLqIufA1Z9c8ag4VsRc0JDmEksH8TbW8lRAll3exZ2q/79LiyxXB9oDpbWOhhk0lpm+kbJkOwOKTIemOsDh0Ydcj35DxYfq6SaPjjCuPoJd+ghwFUn8RZfTY= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:47:08 -0400 From: Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco To: Niall Litchfield Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the market Cc: Oracle-L@freelists.org In-Reply-To: <7765c897050128102669b7b6f1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <200501280728.57609.ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca> <7765c897050128102669b7b6f1@mail.gmail.com> X-archive-position: 15425 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: juancarlosreyesp@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: juancarlosreyesp@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at example.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Really thanks Niall Very interesting information When I say is up to 30% faster is because I read some month ago a study comparying windows and linux, and I suppose this is the reason Oracle suggest to use Linux But what you tell me helps me a lot because I was thinking to try to work on linux instead of windows, now definitvely I'll get my MSCA :) The only problem is I have to learn linux for the master certification. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:26:31 +0000, Niall Litchfield wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:32:43 -0400, Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco > wrote: > > Thanks I supposed the fact linux is about 30% times faster than > > windows was going to help to linux servers. > > If it is a fact - show us your sources with reproducible results. > *Everyone knows* that linux is faster, but if so then demonstrate it. > > On identical hardware and for me > > > > ran 15% *slower* on linux than windows - after tuning Oracle and both > OS's. This isn't a comprehensive test (scalability is ignored, read > mostly is ignored etc) but it isn't a great start for linux. > > The other issue is that your end users probably won't notice the > difference for on-line operations until they are at least 100% faster > or slower. (batch is a different story). > > in the mean time - try the above script on identical hardware, tune > both systems till its as low as it can go and document it. > > happy testing. > > > But the true the fact linux is becoming not free, helps to windows too. > > > No OS is free. The cost is downtime, admin salaries, license fees, > training, hardware if hardware specific etc. Linux may well be cheaper > (ms disagree :)) but free it ain't. Of course if you consider that it > is I have a number of free bridges that you might be interested in. > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com > -- Oracle 9i,10g Certified Professional Experience on Orace 7,8i Developer 6i Certified Professional 8 years of experience in Administration, developing and design -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l