From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 28 10:43:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFF61531C; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:43:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA10577; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:43:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA55160; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:43:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:43:07 -0500 (EST) To: Mike Smith Cc: Julian Elischer , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Alpha support and Oracle. In-Reply-To: <199911280153.RAA96659@mass.cdrom.com> References: <199911280153.RAA96659@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14401.30380.556243.951890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > > > > I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8 > > and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha, > > tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know > > the answers) > > > > 2/ is there a binary version of Oracle we can run on the alpha? > > The Tru64 version _might_ work. I have left my latest working copy of the osf1-ulator for -current at http://www.freebsd.org/~gallatin/osf1.tar.gz Really, I'll get around to committing it soon. Really... > > 3/ does the alpha give a big increase in speed over the same dollars spent > > on x86? > > Not under Oracle at the low end, no. It might depend on your definition of low end. I don't know what Oracle stresses (probably memory & I/O systems). In those catagories, an $8k Compaq Professional Workstation xp1000 will kick sand in the face of any x86 hardware I've seen which is in the same price range. I haven't played with a rambus based machines yet though.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message