RE: Same old story, windows vs Linux

I should have been more specific.

Considering performance only, what would you say is a good reason to choose one or the other?  

My experience is that many hardware decisions are made based on performance assumptions.  

The question:

If disk latency is not an issue, which system runs Oracle faster?

Test scenario would be a single user response time functional test. I start timing click a button on the screen and stop when the screen returns.

All environments are equal, there is no network or n-tier latency, only the database connection is changed via TNS entry update.  

$4 Million Vs. My $2000 laptop.

My Laptop:

Kernel version: Microsoft Windows XP, Multiprocessor Free - 32bit

Processor speed: 2.0 GHz

Processor type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @

Physical memory: 2038 MB

Or this:  

2 - CPUs currently

1654 - MHz CPU clock rate

PowerPC_POWER5 - Processor

64 bit - Hardware

64 bit - Kernel

Dynamic - Logical Partition

5.3.0.30 ML02 - AIX Kernel Version

Model: IBM,9117-570        

Ted  

From: Dan Norris [mailto:dannorris_at_dannorris.com] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:24 AM
To: Ted Coyle
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Same old story, windows vs Linux  

I think both speed and concurrency could be very different between x86 and other platform architectures.

As for downsides to using different platforms for non-production and production, here's a start (I'm sure there are countless others, but I think these are the major ones, in no particular order):

1. Platform-specific issues or bugs
2. Performance (obviously)
3. Spreading yourself "too thin"--by this, I mean that if you can't focus on a single platform, you'll end up knowing a little about many things instead of becoming an expert at one.

Actually, the list isn't as long as I thought, but #3 is a pretty big one in my opinion. I'm sure there are others, but these are the most critical considerations I can think of on a Monday morning.

Dan  

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