Re: hardware sizing question

Sherob

Sorry to say but IMHO your sysadmin is probably right. A U10 is a workstation and not a server.

I'd say from our experience on U10's you won't get much to run successfully on that U5/10 with only 256MB ram and the one hard drive. You're wanting to run Tux and a Web Server as well as Oracle. I think your machine would stuggle to run Oracle alone if those 100 users each have a shadow processes as you're likely to run out of memory.

Andy

"John Smith" <linux_at_home.com> wrote in message news:N2329.123214$WsS.110553_at_news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Hi All,
>
> thank you in advance.
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> I don't know about Oracle, unix. Let me try to explain our situation.
> We have Sun Ultra5 Work Station. This machine has the following
> configuration:
> Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz) with 256MB RAM
> One HD, Seagate Medalist 34342A, 4.3GB, 4500rpm
> No tape Drive.
>
> We are trying to run a Web Application on this machine. This machine
should
> support the following:
> Oracle 8.0.5
> Netscape Web Server V 3.61 or 4.1
> Tuxedo V6.2
> A custom server
>
> Applications are not transaction intensive. Basically upload a file into
> database through a browser and process it.
> In the database we have 50 tables with 10 packages. We have 20-30 pro*c
> programs. We have more than 150 dynamic html pages.
>
> Do you think this machine support 100 users? What are our thoughts? Our
new
> system admin says this is a joke.
> How many users this machine support? We have 2 more workstations like
this.
> Clustering is possible (using NFS)?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Sherob
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Received on Thu Aug 01 2002 - 05:22:11 CDT