Mladen and all,
I have a Dell 2500 with 2 1GHZ Pentium III's, 2 Gig of RAM and 3 30 Gig RAID1 disk on SCSI. It performs rather well, and will run circles around a lightly loaded 2 CPU Sun 220R we use in production. This is my own personal little DBA playground, running RH 2.7, Oracle 8.1.7 and 9.2. :) Jared On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:03, Gogala, Mladen wrote: > Yes and no. If you put in a decent new Adaptec (AHA) SCSI III adapter, > it will be capable of working with a 133MHZ or better motherboard and IO > will be fast, even faster then on an expensive SUN 4xx servers. Of course, > we must be aware that people are putting sound, webcams, game ports and TV > cards into their PCs ant that is never a good idea for a database server. > Personally, I think that a big SMP PC with a few gigs of RAM and decent > SCSI or FC/AL disk farm can easily service 2 or 3 hundred users. One would > still need approximately $10,000 to assemble a piece like that, but before > that, the prices used to have more zeroes. Of course, there is that little > added cost of Oracle RDBMS which will be 2 times as expensive as the HW > it's > running on and that is really what people don't like. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:33 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: RE: LINUX and Oracle Corp. > > > > > > > > > > -- "Cabansay, Yoyong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/01/02 > > 02:19:10 -0800 > > > > > regarding the above topic but on a different note, anyone > > > > here on the > > > > > list that is on an Oracle/HP-UX OS platform for backend and > > > > 9iAS/Linux > > > > > on the middle tier? problems encountered? gotchas? stories > > > > to tell. we > > > > > are looking at this configuration right now for our Oracle Apps 11i. > > > > Main issue w/ most linux boxes is hardware: PC's stink at > > I/O due to the Intel motherboard design. The net result > > tends to be a transfer bottleneck. > > > > -- > > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > > +1 800 762 1582 > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > -- > > Author: > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
