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Re: newbie - how much ram for a test machine ?

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:27:10 +0100
Message-ID: <cu78lm$q1f$1@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


barrett bonden wrote:
> I'd like to test/play with Oracle, and have a machine with 192 Megs of ram ,
> far below what the Oracle docs say I need - but this will in no way be a
> production PC, just a place to get a feel for the application; Will it run ?
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Should work, provided you have an O/S that uses memory sparingly (so: no MS Windows...), and you know how to create a minimal instance. As you admit it's for learning, I doubt the latter.
Bottom line, will work, but could make your machine grind to a halt.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Mon Feb 07 2005 - 02:27:10 CST

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