Re: Technical (not lame) comparison between Oracle 8i on NT & Oracle 8i on Linux

Compare the two OS's. Linux seems to require less hardware for the same performance in general when compared to an MS Windows environment. Oracle itself isn;t going to work differently; it is going to run differently depending upon the OS performance. (IO rates, CPU efficiencie, etc.) Jim

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"kkarma" <kkarma_at_eudoramail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm interested in making a true comparison (not subjective religious)


> between the Oracle 8i on NT and Oracle 8i on Linux performance of an

> app that I developed, but I don't know which Oracle's settings must I

> see and change to ensure that the dbms instance on NT is on equal

> conditions to the dbms instance on Linux.

> My app is running as a Win9x client but relies on many stored

> procedures on the DB side, the app measures the time of its work.

> The instances for comparing are installed on the same machine in this

> way:

> 1)Windows NT Server 4.0(Backoffice) with Oracle 8i (8.1.7) Enterprise

> Edition.

> 2)RedHat 6.2 (Kernel 2.4) with Oracle 8i (8.1.7) Enterprise Edition.