On Friday 02 August 2002 20:38, ltiu wrote: > RH 2.7 with Oracle 8 and 9 wow!!! where did you get these beasts to work > together?
8.1.7 required a bit of work... 9iR1 never did work 9iR2 was fairly simple The Dell is a fast machine with some nice ultra wide SCSI ports. The Sun is a low end server. Dell doesn't have anything that will keep up with Sun's more $$$$ offerings. Jared > > How come Dell Intels outperform Suns. I don't get it? > > ltiu > > On Friday 02 August 2002 20:03, you wrote: > > Mladen and all, > > > > I have a Dell 2500 with 2 1GHZ Pentium III's, 2 Gig of RAM > > and 3 30 Gig RAID1 disk on SCSI. > > > > It performs rather well, and will run circles around a lightly loaded > > 2 CPU Sun 220R we use in production. > > > > This is my own personal little DBA playground, running RH 2.7, Oracle > > 8.1.7 and 9.2. :) > > > > Jared > > > > On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:03, Gogala, Mladen wrote: > > > Yes and no. If you put in a decent new Adaptec (AHA) SCSI III adapter, > > > it will be capable of working with a 133MHZ or better motherboard and > > > IO will be fast, even faster then on an expensive SUN 4xx servers. Of > > > course, we must be aware that people are putting sound, webcams, game > > > ports and TV cards into their PCs ant that is never a good idea for a > > > database server. Personally, I think that a big SMP PC with a few gigs > > > of RAM and decent SCSI or FC/AL disk farm can easily service 2 or 3 > > > hundred users. One would still need approximately $10,000 to assemble a > > > piece like that, but before that, the prices used to have more zeroes. > > > Of course, there is that little added cost of Oracle RDBMS which will > > > be 2 times as expensive as the HW it's > > > running on and that is really what people don't like. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:33 AM > > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > Subject: RE: LINUX and Oracle Corp. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- "Cabansay, Yoyong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/01/02 > > > > 02:19:10 -0800 > > > > > > > > > regarding the above topic but on a different note, anyone > > > > > > > > here on the > > > > > > > > > list that is on an Oracle/HP-UX OS platform for backend and > > > > > > > > 9iAS/Linux > > > > > > > > > on the middle tier? problems encountered? gotchas? stories > > > > > > > > to tell. we > > > > > > > > > are looking at this configuration right now for our Oracle Apps > > > > > 11i. > > > > > > > > Main issue w/ most linux boxes is hardware: PC's stink at > > > > I/O due to the Intel motherboard design. The net result > > > > tends to be a transfer bottleneck. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > > > > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > > > > +1 800 762 1582 > > > > -- > > > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > > > -- > > > > Author: > > > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > > > > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing > > > > Lists > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the > > > > message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
