Re: Recommended hardware for 9i on Linux, at home

Roger Redford wrote:
>
> Dear experts,
>
> I'm planning to buy a Pentium 4 computer for
> home and install Linux and Oracle 9i.
>
> I don't want to chisel on the resources.
> What is recommended for such a configuration?
> Memory, disk space, CPU speed? Should a gig of
> memory be alright? Are some hardware brands
> better than others for Linux?
>
> Also, which versions of Linux and Oracle work well
> together, and behave on installation?
>
> Thanks

I'm running a multi-instance 9.0 plaything on Linux (Suse 8) on a 1Gz laptop with only 256M ram without too much difficulty. Similarly on a clunky old desktop (500Mhz, 512M Ram) running RAC under vmware.

Any newish cpu with 512M+ will trivially run Oracle for investigative purposes.

hth
connor

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