From: "Adrian Shepherd" <Adrian.Shepherd@BTINTERNET.COM>
Subject: Re: What is up with ISM?
Date: 1998/06/07
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Ever tried to catch a pig ?

They are pretty fast and this is no reference to the subscribers
alt.autos.bmw


No Spam Please wrote in message <6l8oru$l5j@nnrp3.farm.idt.net>...
>I just turned up a system with
>    Oracle 7.3.3
>    Solaris 2.6
>    2 Processor Sun UE 3000
>    512MB RAM
>    Veritas Volume Manager (38 drives)
>    Veritas File System
>
>and it is a pig. Somebody mentioned that it is so slow
>because Intimate Shared Memory (ISM) is not available on
>this configuration.
>
>My question is does ISM really provide that much of a
>performance boost and, if so, when will Sun provide
>it or why don't they provide it?
>
>The "pig" reference is in comparison to a uni-processor
>Sun 150 with less RAM, fewer drives, no-striping, etc.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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