[luau] Oracle 9i on Linux

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed Aug 14 13:31:00 PDT 2002


Ray Strode wrote:
>>
>>
>> Mililani High School needs a server to run Oracle 9i server for roughly
>> 20 simultaneous users.  They had purchased a new Dell server for this
>> purpose for about $3,300.  Unfortunately they were somehow horribly
>> ripped off by this purchase, getting only a 1GHz P3 with 512MB RAM.  I
>> am advising them to return this particular Dell ripoff and use one of
>> our donated P2 400MHz Dells from the Air Force.
>>  
>>
> Do you think a P2 400MHz is going to be good enough for 20 simultaneous 
> clients? I doubt it.
> 
> --Ray

Depends on what they're doing.  For students who will be running simple 
queries on small databases, probably.  As Warren points out, this isn't 
a production server.  Make sure to keep the databases down to a 
reasonable size and you should be fine.  Remember, people have run SQL 
servers on much less powerful systems than a PII-400.

--MonMotha




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