surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread chao_ping
Hi, dba friends: The following is what i get this afternoon and want to share my test result with your friends, and hope to get your opinion about this result. I am so surprised with my test result of Dell 6650 system vs Sun 3500.We are running RAC 9.2 on Dell 6650 dual node,

RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- So, what is the advantage of Sun? Redhat Advanced server and 920 is also so much stable, and Sun T3 disk array is also of poor performance. CPU poor, disk array not that good, why sun? -- One

RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- I am also having a weird performance issue with a sun box - mine is a new v880 4 cpu (900mz) with 16g of ram and a 2 T hitachi san. - My first suspicion would involve the SAN. We have one system here that, for whatever reason, (sorry, I'm not

RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread John Shaw
I am also having a weird performance issue with a sun box - mine is a new v880 4 cpu (900mz) with 16g of ram and a 2 T hitachi san. For example - I do an import of a table (partitioned 3 m rows ) and it takes almost 8 minutes vs 3 minutes on my laptop. both running 9.2.0 . many reports take

RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread Lyndon Tiu
We experienced the same problems at my work where dual P3 Xeons running at 1.133Mhz (Compaq Proliants) outperformed a SunFire280R 2:1 in I/O performance. This means that the Proliant had twice more throughput than the 5x more expensive Sun. I don't understand this and I have no explanation from

Re: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread chao_ping
Stephen Lee, To tell you the truth, sun 4500 is the most high end sun i have ever touched:), so i do not have experience on concept like partition etc. And talking about that excellent High Avaliable feature like CPU/Memory corruption and the server still run,that

RE: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- And talking about that excellent High Avaliable feature like CPU/Memory corruption and the server still run Maybe I should clarify. If you lose a memory module, the box will almost certainly reboot itself and come back up with the memory module

RE: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread Jesse, Rich
Message- From: Stephen Lee [mailto:slee;dollar.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650 -Original Message- And talking about that excellent High Avaliable