RE: Oracle on Windows Vs. Linux

We're using Redhat Enterprise Version 3. Don't know why that one was picked.

-----Original Message-----
From: mkb [mailto:mkb125_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:11 PM
To: dofreeman_at_state.pa.us; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Oracle on Windows Vs. Linux

• "Freeman, Donald" <dofreeman_at_state.pa.us> wrote:

> We set up a side by side comparison to test our
> Oracle DB application on
> Windows 2003 32 Bit vs. Red Hat Linux. We set up
> two virtual
> partitions and alternately stopped one and tested
> the other. We have
> been reading different benchmark tests and came to
> believe that we would
> see a 30% to 40% performance advantage using linux.
> We used Load
> Runner and tested three program functions with
> 30-60-90 users. Windows
> performed about 10% better. Does anybody have any
> advice or
> observations on this? Any configuration advice?
>
> Don Freeman
> Database Administrator 1
> Bureau of Information Technology
> Pennsylvania Department of Health
> (717) 703-5782
>
>

What version of Linux?

I do believe that the 2.6 kernel has better IO performance than the 2.4 kernel.

If you're on 2.4, I'd try and upgrade to 2.6 and see if that makes any difference.

--
mohammed


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