Comment Simple answer -> App Check: Oracle/Sybase? (Score 1) 368
(I've been /.'d! my first post)
Apache would scale since it launches multiple incarnations of its process, seems to be the consensus, makes sense.
I'm confused by what highly parallelizable (sp) means exactly for a server like Sybase or Oracle on Linux? I would assume that Sybase and Oracle db servers take advantage of SMP under Linux (2.0.36/2.2.x), but how exactly?
We're looking at buying one of those nice VA Research 2U rack mount dual p2 350mhz processor servers, loading it up with 512mb of ram, and running something like Sybase and RealServer on it as the backend to a couple of Sun Ultra 5's being used as webservers.
What kind of performance can we expect? While "performance" is of course really relative, will Sybase or Oracle co-exist with something like RealServer nicely? Where are the performance bottlenecks going to be? We've considered a quad-port ethernet card so we can wire it directly to each of the two Ultra 5's for high machine-to-machine connectivity (keeps us from buying a switch as well).
Opinions? Anyone doing the same thing?
Apache would scale since it launches multiple incarnations of its process, seems to be the consensus, makes sense.
I'm confused by what highly parallelizable (sp) means exactly for a server like Sybase or Oracle on Linux? I would assume that Sybase and Oracle db servers take advantage of SMP under Linux (2.0.36/2.2.x), but how exactly?
We're looking at buying one of those nice VA Research 2U rack mount dual p2 350mhz processor servers, loading it up with 512mb of ram, and running something like Sybase and RealServer on it as the backend to a couple of Sun Ultra 5's being used as webservers.
What kind of performance can we expect? While "performance" is of course really relative, will Sybase or Oracle co-exist with something like RealServer nicely? Where are the performance bottlenecks going to be? We've considered a quad-port ethernet card so we can wire it directly to each of the two Ultra 5's for high machine-to-machine connectivity (keeps us from buying a switch as well).
Opinions? Anyone doing the same thing?
