Re: Oracle on HP V Class

I never remember what the classification of HP boxes is so I may be talking rubbish here, but is it possibly a case of 32 bit software being run on a 64 bit box . I vaguely recall reading about some problem doing this on HP's which resulted in slower operation.

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Jonathan Lewis
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Erwin Dondorp wrote in message <3734DC83.C813C4F1_at_wxs.nl>...
>John,
>
>Thanks for this warning.
>I'm quite sure that the truth is slightly more complicated.
>
>Can you tell us whether the upgrade was done using the same "init" file,
> or was a new database created and the data imported into it?
>Has the layout of the datafiles over the filesystems changed a lot?
>Has the disk layout (striping,raid,etc or not) changed a lot?
>etc. etc.
>We are curious...
>
> Erwin
>
>John Crump wrote:
>
>> One of our clients have just upgraded from a K class H.P Server to the
new V
>> class.
>>
>> They are reporting an Oracle performance reduction rather than the
expected
>> dramatic performance increase
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John Crump
>
Received on Sun May 09 1999 - 02:41:18 CDT