Re: best Hardware for 8i

In general I would recommend less but faster CPUs for the following reasons:

1. There is considerable overhead when tasks are passed from one processor to another one by SMP.
2. The task switching time is shorter because the CPU itself is faster.
3. You can add further CPUs if you need to.
4. Not all tasks can be separated among several CPUs effectively if you have data dependencies. So you still have to finish the elementary tasks quickly which can more easily be achieved by a fast CPU - see a).

Martin

Kay Liesenfeld wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we want to use Oracle 8i (Standard) on a Linux-Server, what is the ideal
> hardware for our environment?
>
> There are about 50 concurrent users (number will dramatically increase the
> next months) and we think about an Intel-based HP-Server with 2 PIII-733, 2
> GB RAM, 100 GB Harddisks (RAID 0).
>
> Is it more profitable for a database system...
>
> ...to use MORE CPUs than FASTER ones (unless we don't have Oracle EE with
> parallel querying, do make more than 2 CPUs any sense)?
>
> ...to use more RAM than more CPUs?
>
> Thank you for help,
>
> Kay.
Received on Thu Apr 20 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT