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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Solaris TPC-C benchmarks (with Oracle)
To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:08:01 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970313130458.25395A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Mar 13, 97 01:15:02 pm
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In some mail from Michael Hancock, sie said:
> 
> It was a price performance measure.  The actual throughput was quote, "The
> performance score of Solaris, measuring transactions per minute, was
> equally impressive: 6679.50tpmC throughput."
> 
> This was Oracle on an IBM PC Server.
> 
> Contrast this with the Compaq/Sybase/UnixWare benchmark in November. "The
> TPC-C result of 8,311.43 tpmC was based on a ProLiant 5000 configured with
> four 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors each with 512KB cache, 4-GB of memory,
> using the SCO's UnixWare operating system version 2.1.1, running Sybase's
> SQL Server 11.0.3 database application." 

Did the run Solaris on the same hardware or different hardware ?

Having used a Proliant 2500 which has RAID-5 disk, I assume the 5000 does
too..