Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!cyclone.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.tufts.edu!newstransit.mitre.org!news.mitre.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Sylvester Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Sparc vs. Intel - Central vs. Local Storage Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 14:39:33 -0400 Organization: The MITRE Corporation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3CFFAC65.B2BB6EED@mitre.org> References: <541e251e.0206050836.6000b9ba@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: peters.mitre.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newslocal.mitre.org 1023388773 3754 129.83.9.28 (6 Jun 2002 18:39:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@mitre.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:39:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en]C-20010724M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:149774 X-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:36:58 MST (news.easynews.com) There's a new article on OTN, which implies SGA sizes up to aroung 8GB with the newer Linux releases: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/linux/pdf/1_linuxVM_v2_accepted.pdf -Peter Viacheslav Leichinsky wrote: > > seth@northrops.com (Seth Northrop) wrote in message news:<541e251e.0206050836.6000b9ba@posting.google.com>... > > Greetings! > > > > > What would be the best option for an application similar to the one > > above? We are considering either a Dell Poweredge 6600 (dual ~1.4Ghz > > XEON, 8GB RAM w/ Linux) or a SunFire V880 (Dual Sparc III @ 900Mhz w/ > > only 4GB of RAM w/ Solaris 8 or 9). > > Hello, > > I doubt that Oracle can use SGA > 2 GB under Linux. > > Regards, > Slava