Appropriate Hardware to run Oracle 9 1

[Erikxxx]

Hi all,

I'm looking at buying a cheap computer P3, 256MB and a couple of Gig HD to use as a development machine (private use) for my Oracle 9i database(maybe 10G), Win XP pro, Eclipse, Tomcat etc.

There won't be a huge amount of data stored on this machine maybe a couple of thousands of records for testing or so.

My question is if a P3 would be enough for this task, or if I should rather look at buying a P4. My budget for this machine is around 90pound and I don't think I'll find a P4 for that price.

Cheers
Erik

 

[rvnguy]

Erikxxx,

These are the "minimum" hardware requirements for Orcale9 from Orcale:

Hardware Requirements
Processor Pentium 166 MHz or higher
Memory RAM: 128 MB (256 MB recommended)
Virtual Memory: Initial Size 200 MB, Maximum Size 400 MB
Hard disk space 140 MB on the System Drive
plus 4.5 GB for the Oracle Home Drive (FAT)
or 2.8 GB for the Oracle Home Drive (NTFS)

A PIII should be more than enough to use as a test base for this. If you plan on using it for other things that would/could influence this post.

rvnguy
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[garebo]

Even a pentium 2, say even a P2-400 would run most software. But a Pentium 3 - 450 to 900 or so would do it faster.
This also jives with the min requirements listed above.
I would just make sure i had at least 256 mb of ram and more would be better. Ram runs most machines faster when it comes to apps.


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