Recently I asked:
I would like to hear about anybody's experience using the
SS1000 as an Oracle server running Oracle7 and Solaris 2.x.
In particular, how well does Oracle7 make use of multiple
cpu's?
Eight responses have been received as of now.
Of these, three people are now installing this configuration or plan
to do so in the near future, one would like to know what we find out,
and four have info. from observing or installing it.
Nobody had anything bad to say and there seems to be great satisfaction
with the installed systems.
Mark Sigler provided the following particulars concerning Oracle's
architecture relative to MP systems:
Oracle has an excellent architecture
to take advantage of SMP systems,
most notably the Sun 1000/2000.
Most of the functions, like the
db-writer and log-writer, are implemented
as individual processes that are either
dedicated or shared among tasks.
The OS, Solaris, schedules these processes
across multiple CPU's in a balanced and
transparent fashion. The use of independent
readers and writers with concurrency control
in conjunction with the multi-threaded SMP OS
allows for very high scalability and throughput.
Thanks to the following and apologies to anybody who may have been left out:
Steve.Kirkpatrick@artecon.com (Steve Kirkpatrick)
pdricket@nps.navy.mil (Paul D. Ricketts)
aldricho@cuug.ab.ca (Orville Aldrich 267-6916)
charles.mengel@lgi.com
Gary Merinstein <gmerin@panix.com>
mark@ccifl.com (Mark Sigler)
hebert@sunrock.East.Sun.COM (Jim Hebert {*Prof Services} Sun Rochester)
Darren Cooper <cooper@awala.csg.cnes.fr>
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Bob Reardon bobr@Houston.Wireline.SLB.COM
(713) 275-4794
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