[TriLUG] Need advise.

[jeremyp at pobox.com]

Hi Roy,

My defintion of reasonably big for a database server would be:
at least 36 GB SCSI HD, with hardware RAID of course  (RAID 1 ideal)
at least 1 GB RAM

Depends really on what your anticipated load is though.  If you expect to
have a lot of stored data, but not too many queries, then get more HD
space.  If you have a busy server, but not a huge amount of data, than HD
doesn't matter so much but RAM and processor certainly does.

People have said mixed things about SMP under Unix, but I have two
dual-proc. machines that work just fine.  Kevin says Oracle isn't a
processor hog, but still dual-processor machines are kewl. :)

--Jeremy

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

> When you say big, I'm assuming 20GB or more?  RAM = 512MB or more??
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney [mailto:alchemist at darkcanvas.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Need advise.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:43:51AM -0400, Vestal, Roy L. spoke thusly:
> > I will be setting up our first Linux server here at work. (YEAH!). It will
> > be an Oracle server, and I need suggestions.
> 
> Having recently done an oracle on linux install, I can talk about this
> a little.
> 
> > Any suggestions on the basic setup of the server?  Any recommendations on
> > white papers on Oracle and it's requirements?
> 
> Make it *BIG*. Lots of disk, lots of RAM. Oracle is a pig when it
> comes to RAM and Disk. But it seems pretty good with CPU, supprisingly
> enough.
> 
> Read the Oracle Docs carefully, then go hunting for other docs. If I
> hadn't lost my bookmark list, I'd have a plethora for you.
> 
> Use RedHat or SuSE. 
> 
> You may have to install it a few times to get it right. I know I did. 
> 
> Good luck, and if you need any help when the system gets here, wel,
> you know where to find me *grin*
> 
>