I agree with the benefits of being able to wave benchmark papers around and saying "But look what they HAD to do !"
The line from one of the HP ones (1M tpcc) that I really liked was: <quote> Most of the space on the arrays in the tested system was unused during the performance tests, but is available to satisfy the 8-hour log and 60-day storage requirements. <unquote> If you want performance, you put just a thin stripe of active data on any one of those 180GB disc drives that the accountants love to buy because they're so cheap. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:29 AM what's really helpful about these, are the server tweaks made (if you deploy on win32). check out http://www.tpc.org/results/FDR/TPCC/dell_2650_261103_fdr.pdf Pg 170 - there's a list of all of the services that are disabled/stopped - 24 in all. Pg 224 - the section of the MS diagnostics report lists that provides a detail list of the services. lots of unneccesary "features". Pd -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis 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).
