Re: Where to 'spend the bucks' - Cost/Benefit advice wanted

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On 10/26/00, 1:58:01 PM, johng_at_mm.com (TurkBear) wrote regarding Where t o
'spend the bucks' - Cost/Benefit advice wanted:

> Hi all,
 

> Given Oracle's Power-Unit pricing, I need some real-world advice about
 

the
> relative 'bang-for-buck' for
> CPU type/Speed/Number of
 

> Ram
 

> Disk Controller speed/IO in general
 

> We have a mixed environment, so if you could advise on both DSS/Wareho
 use
> instances, and TP instances ( an average of 200-300 concurrent session
s)
, I
> would appreciate it..
 

> Mainly I am trying to determine how important CPU speed and number of
 

CPUs is
> to performance relative to the other factors mentioned above...

> Thanks,

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        Based on my experience (YMMV) I would rank your factors as follows:

1. RAM
2. More RAM
3. Even more RAM
4. Mirrored disk (if you are looking for bang for the buck you are best off avoiding RAID 5 -- like the plague)
5. Number of CPUs
6. CPU speed