Re: How much memory(RAM) required for OS running Oracle

On Jul 5, 2:50 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> harvinde..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > We are setting up couple of boxes on Linux with different hardware
> > specs and trying to prepare a document that can be used as general
> > guidelines for future installations.
> > In SQL Server installations, for system with <16GB we allocate 1GB for
> > OS and rest of memory for Database and for system with >16GB we
> > allocate 2GB for OS and rest of memory for database.
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> And how do you do that?
> given that:
> - - SS only runs on Microsoft,
> - - Microsoft allocates half the available memory for the OS
> (but I havent kept up with all their "enterprise" mumbo-jumbo)
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> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel

It is a myth that Microsoft allocates half of the available memory for the OS, see my responses in the "2GB limit of memory for Oracle on WIndows 32 bit" thread - this has not changed significantly since Windows 95. Each application sees a virtual 2GB address space. 64 bit Windows is an entirely different matter.

Maybe SS is being run in Wine on Linux? :-)

Charles Hooper
IT Manager/Oracle DBA
K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc. Received on Thu Jul 05 2007 - 15:37:26 CDT