Re: Oracle installation

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:10:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1116003981.500808@yasure>

Holger Baer wrote:

> pat wrote:
>

>> Mauro wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I tried to install Oracle server after downloading 10g_win32_db.zip.
>>> I have a 2.4GHz processor and 256MB RAM and Windows XP.
>>>
>>> There were problems after installation because PC was always writing
>>
>>
>> disk
>>
>>> (not enough RAM I suppose).
>>>
>>> Is there any minimal installation for database server?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Why would anyone have only 256Mb of memory for a 2.4 Pentium?  The
>> machine will never reach its potential.  Most developers I know have
>> 2Gb or more.
>>

>
> And most performance problems I've seen (putting the database stuff aside)
> resulted from this fact. Developers always crave to have a shiny new
> machine
> and forget that anything they produce often has to run on something much
> older.
> and slower. With the result that instead of running it crawls.
>
> When I was responsible for purchasing new hardware, I always tried to make
> sure that what the developers got was less than what the code would run on
> in production. That way they thought of optimizing before the fact.
>
> No, they didn't like me for that. Why do you ask ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Holger

Another great reason for RAC.

Give developers a two-node clauster.
Give testing a three or four node cluster. Give production whatever it requires.

Older production nodes just get recycled to test and older test nodes get recycled to dev.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Fri May 13 2005 - 12:10:33 CDT