Re: Hardware recommendation???

Torsten Borchert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> before you think about Linux or another PC-Unix:
> When your application grows very often the first problem is the CPU: 100
> percent busy ...(sorts in memory - order by, group by clause and so on)
> So you have think about a box and a operating system which will be able
> to handle 2 or 4 processors.
> And with big tables Oracle parallel query works fine.
> The second problem is disk-I/O - when you have 2 or more CPU's.
>
> Torsten

Exactly - another good reason to think about a UNIX variant.

Linux BTW can handle several processors - I believe up to 4 (?) at the time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but disk I/O isn't too much of an OS problem in Oracle, because you have a good deal of control over where things are laid out in Oracle.

Anyway, when low start prices are important, my guess is that we're not initially talking about an enormous, high performance database, and a single CPU PC with Linux will probably be sufficient to start with - you get a surprisingly high performance out of even this little HW.

/jan Received on Mon Oct 05 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT