Re: NT vs. Unix????

Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> On 1 Dec 1997 17:23:36 GMT, hboswell_at_lance.netdoor.com
> (Harry Boswell) wrote:
>
> >Apologies if this has been asked to death, but I've been out of
> >the Oracle orbit for the past couple of years. I've used Oracle
> >versions 4, 5, 6, and 7, all on Unix machines. I'm now looking at
> >a new Oracle implementation, supporting up to possibly 250 or so
> >users, that may be on Unix or NT. Are there any red flags about NT?
> >Is the DBA's job significantly different on NT? Any advice or
> >general comments are most welcome.
> >
> >TIA,
> >Harry
> We have an application and have benchmarked it against
> Pentium Pro quad processor with 2 gigs of RAM and 12 disk
> drives and found that 250 users is about the limit. That is
> going to depend on how your application uses the database
> and how efficient it is.(host variables, array interface,
> reuse sql etc.) Did find that UNIX platforms get you more
> potential head room. On Sun we were able to get more total
> users and also on HPUX. In addition, you can realistically
> scale better on UNIX than on NT.
>
> Jim Kennedy X7055

Wow, NT is that bad. I can easily do 250 clients on a two processor E3000 with 512 MB RAM.. Received on Thu Dec 04 1997 - 00:00:00 CST