[SunHELP] [Q] Need your suggestion to upgrade SUn server?

[Björn Ramqvist]

Sorry to continue this non-sunrelated discussion, but what on EARTH is
an ES160?
That "preconfigured Oracle + ES40 thingy"? Can't remember I've ever
heard of that model...
(Incase you don't mean the GS160, which is way far into another league)

/Bjorn

Maarten Deen wrote:
> 
> Les:
> 
> > thus more spindles. The DBA standing next to me is saying
> > "tell him more spindles, not bigger drives AND MORE RAM)
> 
> Hmm, heard that before. One of our warehouse management setups
> is currently beating the crap out of 4 fully loaded DEC ES40's (we
> tried replacing one with an 8-way ES160. Didn't work [1]). One of the
> things running on these machines are two databases, the other are a
> lot of processes with heavy logging. Compaq installed smaller disks
> some time ago to get more spindles. It did make a difference.
> 
> Maarten
> 
> [1] An ES160 is basically 4xES40. The downpart is that they have to
> synchronize. This takes one processor of each ES40. :-<
> 
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> Maarten Deen                                           +31 (0)77 3076879
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