Re: Questions about machine

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:20:59 +0100
Message-ID: <3ac72ca0$0$15024$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>

Comments below
"Martin Kleinman" <mkleinman-spm_at_desyde.nl> wrote in message news:9a49rl$934$1_at_news1.xs4all.nl...
> I've got the following machine and software.
>
> Pentium 400
> 384 MB memory
> WIN NT 4.0 with SP 5.0.
>
> Oracle 8.1.7 Database
> Oas 4.0.8.1 webserver

<snip>

> - Can I install WINNT SP 6.0a on the machine without the risk that Oracle
> will stop working?

Yes. But you'd backup before a service pack upgrade anyway right?
>
> - Is there a way to speedup the database/webserver?

Maybe. Does it run slow on specific operations, have you identified the bottlenecks? Memory,io etc.

>
> Will an upgrade to 512MB memory solve my problems?

Certainly will help. 1GB would be better.

However you might well be better advised to seperate the web server and the dbms. The two applications have quite different characteristic and so should be tuned differently.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Sun Apr 01 2001 - 08:20:59 CDT