Minimum hardware requirements for Oracle 9i

Thomas Fricker

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Feb 22, 2002, 2:37:09 AM2/22/02

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We're planning to implement Oracle 9i. I did not find any word for the
Minimum hardware requirements for Oracle 9i in the Oracle documentation or
on the Oracle web pages.
We intend to use Windows 2000 or XP on an Intel Hardware.
What are the minimum requirements for CPU and Memory in a Test-Environment
(1 concurrent User) and our Productoin-Environment (40 concurrent User).

Thanks
Thomas Fricker

damorgan

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Feb 22, 2002, 12:21:51 PM2/22/02

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I could ask why. I just purchased two UNIX mchines this week. Both of which
could easily handle 40 concurrent users. And neither one cost more than $1000
(US). So why Win2000 with XP?

Anyway ... for 40 users you could probably get by with 512MB RAM but I'd go
with a gig given the O/S. For one user 256MB RAM.

Daniel Morgan

Keith Boulton

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Feb 22, 2002, 3:39:16 PM2/22/02

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The installer for 9i requires 512M ie more than the database which is
amusing.

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damorgan

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Feb 22, 2002, 5:27:08 PM2/22/02

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I have successfully installed 9i on a machine with 64MB RAM under NT4SP5 so that
is not true in all cases. But it certainly is slow with all of the swapping that
takes place.

Daniel Morgan

Keith Boulton

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Feb 23, 2002, 4:29:37 AM2/23/02

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I tried it on a 256M linux machine and it kept hanging even though there was
plenty of swap space. Of course, it could have been some other problem, but
adding more memory seemed to fix it.

My point was more about an installer (which after all just copies files
around) that requires as much memory as a database server that can support
10s/100s of users!

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damorgan

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Feb 24, 2002, 8:58:00 PM2/24/02

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Well I just bought my own Sun Ultra and HP 9000, each with 512MB RAM so pretty
soon I will be able to report my experience with them to the group. Likely also
a few frustrations. <g>

Yoav Itzcovitch

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Mar 11, 2002, 1:10:09 PM3/11/02

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Hi all,

After going through all of Oracle's docs and site, I read you posts,
but still could not understad, where can I find the recomended
hardware configuration for oracle 9i or windows 2000 server? There
must be a formal resource by Oracle regarding this issue

Thanks

Yoav.
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Peter Ikuobase

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Mar 15, 2002, 10:46:02 AM3/15/02

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Yoav,

The system requirements for Oracle 9i database are documented in the
Installation Guide for Windows (Chapter2). Oracle states that the minimum
requirements for installing Oracle on Windows 2000 are Pentium 166, 128 MB
RAM, 2.75GB Oracle home drive (NTFS), 140 MB system drive (NTFS) and 400MB
temp space.

Oracle's recommended hardware configuration is a Pentium 233/266 processor
with 256MB RAM and necessary disk space as outlined above.

Beyond these minimum requirements, your hardware configuration will depend
of the demands of your applications.

See the link below (you will need to register with technet if you have'nt
already - registration is free.:
http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/90111install/re
qs.htm#1195223

Hope this helps.

Peter

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