Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!216.239.36.134.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Chuck Whealton" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle RAC newbie Date: 8 Aug 2006 19:52:06 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1155091926.304104.162260@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> References: <1154890261.146977.114080@n13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1154999517.164864.259300@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1155001588.712389@bubbleator.drizzle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.137.166.78 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1155091931 4994 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2006 02:52:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:52:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.137.166.78; posting-account=n2gUew0AAACW8DqRdQ-C1zSNaObFYP7u Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:272410 Bob Jones wrote: > > quickly became a joke. That may happen to RAC, if too many people get too > > serious about running RAC on a bunch of Linux PC boxes and start expecting > > them to perform like mainframes. > > I am not expecting anything to run slow like mainframes. I have to say, with our application, we use it more for redundancy than for speed. If we wanted speed, I don't think I'd have used Windows on blade servers for it. Charles R. Whealton Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com