RE: Windows 2000 Server and processor recommendations

Dual 2.4 GHZ would be better because at that bus speed you cannot really use your RAM. Unless you have huge CPU cache, you're bound to experience wait states while your CPU is fetching memory. RAM speeds are are around 50ns and CPU cycles happen one in 0.3ns. The difference in speed is approximately 100 times. You must have very smart on CPU board cache in order to atone for that. Furthermore, in order to help CA economy, I'd go with Red Hat, if I had a choice. Using Apache/Tomcat on an NT box is half the fun of running it on a Linux box.    

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 


-----Original Message-----
Shannon St. Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


We are going to be installing a small web application in our DMZ.  The
application was built using JSP, running on an Apache/tomcat configuration.
The back end is small (< 1Gb) oracle standard edition database (v9.2.0)
 
We are going to run this on a dual-processor dell server.  There will be
lots of OLTP (online lookups) but the actual transaction is very small


(enter an address and it tells you where your polling station is).

 
We have several options for configuring the server.  What would be better?
 
a) Dual Xeon 3.06GHz w/1M cache and 2GB Ram: $8,423
d) Dual Zeon 2.4Ghz w/512K cache and 4Gb Ram : $8,872
 
is it better to skimp slightly on the cpu's and go for more ram (ie. caching
more)?
 
 
Thanks for any info.
 
 
Shannon

 
Shannon St. Dennis
Database Administrator
City of Regina


(306) 777-7415 (phone)

(306) 777-6804 (fax)

sstdenni_at_cityregina.com 
 
The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of
its DBA




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