Re: Hardware recommendations for RedHat X86-64/10gR2

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:39:47 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380706120939q30a64e5fqb1d97681c09d13d@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/12/07, Allan Nelson <anelson77388_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems that a two socket Dual Core Xeon 3060 processor at about 2.4 GHZ
> would do the trick CPU wise. It

Dual CPU is overkill for this.

We are running 7 databases on one 64bit RH box - 5 of those databases due quite a bit of IO.
CPU is never an issue.

My recommendation is to skip the 64 bit option if <= 4 gig of RAM is required.
The 32 bit RH is much easier to install Oracle on.

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Jared Still
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