RE: x86-64 or itanium

Hi  

I use Itanium only with HP-UX on very big an critical clients. Hardware: rx8640, rx6600. Very reliable and good performance (only dual core Itanium).
You can use also Linux and Windows but I think HP-UX will be better.  

x86-64 system´s have very good performance. I use it in small to medium database servers.
Linux (I prefer) or Windows (If client wants it).  

I always use Windows 32bit by now, but this SO have a 2GB/per process limitation so we are
thinking to change to Windows 64bit. (I need some references on working systems).  

I use the SAP bechmark to compare server performance using Oracle. http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx  

You need to Download in tab-delimited text format, open with Excel and using autofilter, sort by SAPS.  

Another good bechmarks are www.tpc.org and www.spec.org  

greetings.

De: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] En nombre de Jeffrey Beckstrom
Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de noviembre de 2007 16:40 Para: oracle-l-freelists; oracle-db-l; oracle tech-old list; oracle rdbms group
Asunto: x86-64 or itanium

We are trying to decide between x86-64 bit and Itanium servers.  

For those of you running 64-bit, which hardware and OS are you using.  

Jeffrey Beckstrom
Database Administrator
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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