At Oxford you are running Oracle8i, correct? Do you believe that application partitioning is as important with 9i and cache fusion as it is in 8i?
--- Mladen Gogala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone seen/run/stumbled over similar beast, if so - does it > "fly" > > or it "stinks"? > > Depends on the application system. RAC is a bit more tolerant, but > you still > want to minimize the block exchange between the nodes. Application > system must > be "functionally partitioned", meaning that related data should be > accessed > from the same node. Example: let's imagine that we have health care > application system which has elements like members/groups/providers, > claims > and drug utilization/ 3rd party vendors. Each of the listed groups is > a > complex application system accessing several hundreds of related > tables. Good > thing would be to put each of the listed application groups on its > own node > with the 4th node reserved for batch processing. If block exchange is > frequent > and DLM has a lot of work to do, then "flying" means "free falling > until you > hit the ground". > > P.S. > > > > I've looked at number of metalink articles and found none yet to > > "scratch" this specific "itch" of mine. > > > > Oracle RAC on Win2K is for some bizarre reason REQUIREMENT. > > Requirement by who? It usually helps to make a business case for a > specific > configuration and benchmark it to see whether the performance is > satisfactory. > Let me suggest a little benchmark: 4 clustered, beefed up PC boxes > vs. a > single, 16-CPU IBM P690 with the latest "960" CPUs and AIX 5.2. You > can > benchmark price and performance. I'd be very intrigued to find out > the > outcome. It is very hard to predict it properly (wink, wink). > > > > > > > > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Mladen Gogala > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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). ===== Paul Baumgartel, Adept Computer Associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Paul Baumgartel INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).
