Re: Oracle 8i Installer *unbelievably* slow

From: Norris <johnnie_at_cooper.com.hk>
Date: 28 Jul 1999 03:40:57 GMT
Message-ID: <7nlu49$sts$1@imsp009a.netvigator.com>

Pentium II and 128MB RAM is just the basic requirement for Oracle 8i. Think before upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1

Finn Ellebaek Nielsen <fen_at_changegroup.dk> wrote:
: Even with 128MB RAM it's extremely slow compared to the "good old"
: installer. I realize that Oracle is trying to minimize the development
: effort by making a portable installation program but giving us this
: unacceptable performance is disappointing. I wonder if HotSpot could help
: when they make Java2 version of the program, which could well happen for
: 8.1.6.

: Finn

: Damond Walker <dwalker_at_iximd.com> wrote in message
: news:dXYm3.242$5K4.49428_at_typhoon1.gnilink.net...

:>
:> Brad Aisa wrote in message <379B1E85.8A282925_at_istar.ca>...
:> >I have just finished doing some installs of Oracle 8i client for
:> >Windows. On my (not too old) Dell Optiplex PC running Win95 with 32M of
:> >RAM, it took over two hours to complete the install of Oracle 8i client
:> >(including documentation).
:>
:>     Try to install it on a 32meg NT box and watch what happens.  It isn't
:> pretty.  :)  You can blame the whole mess on a Java I think.  It just does
:> not like 32 meg machines for real applications (in this case, the Oracle
:> installer).
:>     I did manage to install the Oracle8i client on a 266mhz Pentium laptop
:> running VMWare (which allows me to run Windows 95 under Linux quite

: nicely).

:> The emulated Win95 machine had 32 megs to play with and the install did

: take

:> about an hour.  A whole lot of disk thrashing took place though...
:>
:>
:>
:>

http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/ Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 22:40:57 CDT