[TriLUG] Need advise.

Rev. Christian J Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Tue Oct 23 12:18:21 EDT 2001


Jeremy writes:
> 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

Why not RAID 0+1 as "ideal"?  Honestly curious about this.

> 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. :)

+1.  Works great for me.





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