Re: Need recommendation for RS/6000 server

"Henri M.B. van den Bulk" <hvdbulk_at_lgc.com> wrote:

>Wally Beddoe <wally_at_tkna.com> wrote:
>>I need to buy an RS/6000 system which will server as an Oracle Server and
>>a communications Server running "Direct Mailbox" s/w.
>>The system needs to handle about 3,000 Oracle transactions a day or about
>>100 transactions a minute.
>>Also need the system to support a 1/2" 9-track tape drive.
>>My guess is that a 500 series system would be the best bet.
>>Any specifics would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>>Wally Beddoe Telekurs (North America) Inc.
>>wally_at_tkna.com Stamford, Connecticut
>>Semper Fi! (203) 353-8100
>>
>>
I would seriously consider another back-end server. I've had to work with several AIX boxes as Oracle db servers. ALL had very poor performance. These were 500 series boxes outfitted with 384 Meg RAM and only one instance running. The box was completely saturated while running a Financials upgrade with 5 workers. The configuration was on IBM's high availability cluster. I found that I could crash the system at will. The I/O was so bad that during the creation of tablespaces, the HACMP manager thought the machine was down because HACMP didn't 'hear' from the box within it's timeout period. VERY unstable, VERY poor performance. During one of the numerous support calls I got an Oracle support guy to admit that the AIX platform was not a good one for a back-end db server. As an apps server it it pretty good. Received on Wed Sep 06 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST