Re: Hardware Question

From: Paul Drake <discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:26:24 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20040604182624.78431.qmail@web20420.mail.yahoo.com>

• "Hostetter, Jay M" <JHostetter_at_decommunications.com> wrote:
  > Our sysadmins are spec-ing out some new hardware.
  > I know that there are lots of variables
  > involved, but I am
  > hoping that somebody with a little more experience
  > with Oracle on the
  > IBM platform can tell me:
  > a) yes - that's a smokin' configuration
  > b) chances are it will work for you
  > c) that configuration isn't even in the ballpark
  > d) run away screaming from this hardware and OS
  > or some variation thereof
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Jay
  

Jay,

2 words: eval unit

I would simply post that, but the quotebot won't let it fly, so I'll add some more ballast.
How about visiting the TPC site at http://www.tpc.org and checkout the TPC-C reports. Compare some bogomips of systems that have thousands of hard drives.

Currently waiting for a 64 bit driver for RHEL 3.0 ES 64 bit for an HP Opteron box, so I'm still in the land of 32 bit with the oompa loompas.

Pd                          

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