Re: Maximum memory on NT

"Christopher M. Day" wrote:
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> Jim,
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> I remember this one being a major difference between Oracle7 on NT vs.
> Oracle7 on Unix (i.e. NT max users = 1024, UNIX = 10s of thousands ..) -
> Is this overcome in Oracle8 ?

A user session to Oracle takes much less space under NT than for UNIX simply because of the thread vs process architecture. Lets assume a session on NT takes about 2M (since threading allows for shared memory segments). The same sessions for UNIX would be ~ 10 M each (because they are independent processes) so NT reaches its 2G limit with 1024 connections. Assuming 10,000 connections (Your minimum claim for UNIX) - UNIX will need 97G of memory. I would rather have 12 2G NT boxes that are in a cluster - fault tolerant, faster and 10s of thousands of $ cheaper that the UNIX box that does the same job.

Stilian Received on Mon Mar 22 1999 - 17:07:24 CST