Hardware opinions wanted

Hello,
Currently we are tasked with evaluating our current hardware platform and need to decide whether to look into new OS and processors, or stick with what we have. We will probably have to purchase new machines within the next year or less, based on our current growth. We currently have an 8 processor Sun V880 and a 12 processor 1280. We run Oracle under Solaris 9 on these on non clustered environments.
Can you post some opinions on newer hardware and any feelings why? We are looking at Sun sparc on Solaris or coming Opteron for Solaris, as well as IBM P series, and Linux on dell x86. Our main use is high performance database activity. Speed and stability is key. The Sun boxes have been rock solid, but we are starting to bottleneck occasionally at CPU. Cost of the machines is not so much a concern as cost of licenses over time. But we can look at more processors if that is the answer. Any suggestions appreciated.
Bob

RAC on lots of cheap Linux machine is a way to go too.
It works fine and you can scale to infinite with diferent machine...
Fred

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Please give me your opinions!!! I can tell you a little more about the app if you need more info to make an educated statement...
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[email protected]

Intel hardware recommendations wanted

Hi!
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looking for information and hands-on experience
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Has anyone had any luck running Linux and Oracle under
such a configuration ?
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stability, well it's Oracle, we've been running it for 10 years
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course)
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Christian S Rosnes (guest) wrote:
: Hi!
: Our dept. is looking for a database solution for storage
: and retrieval of statistical and service related data
: for our telephone services.
: The choice is narrowed down to Oracle. If hardware
: allows, we'd like to run it under Linux. I'm
: looking for information and hands-on experience
: with regards to choice of hardware; We're looking
: for a Intel based solution, with SMP and RAID.
: Has anyone had any luck running Linux and Oracle under
: such a configuration ?
: Has anyone been able to run it under a Compaq Proliant 3000R
: with SmartArray Raid ? Or how about HP Netserver LC II with
: NetRaid ? Or, are these servers plattforms one should stay
: clear off ?
: The database should initially handle at least 2 GB of data.
: (Estimated growth will be approx. 10 MB each day).
: Performance must be high, because telephone applications
: will use the database for "real-time" information-retrieval.
: (We might have as many as 400 callers querying the
: database for unique records at same time. Search
: parameters will be indexed fields).
: Stability is also crucial. Our services are running
: 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year.
: Regards,
: Christian
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Anonymous UUID: 4D3C2F74-EB9D-4CF3-BE39-C54C41DBEA4D
Wed Dec 15 20:03:20 2010
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0x002993d6, type 14=page fault, registers:
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0x58b6bd08 : 0x21b50c (0x5d42fc 0x58b6bd3c 0x223974 0x0)
0x58b6bd58 : 0x2aab55 (0x59616c 0x2993d6 0xe 0x596336)
0x58b6be38 : 0x2a09a8 (0x58b6be50 0x0 0x58b6bee8 0x2993d6)
0x58b6be48 : 0x2993d6 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x58b6bee8 : 0x969752 (0x0 0x87fc000 0x58b6bf68 0x227259)
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0x58b6bf88 : 0x54b966 (0x88f5880 0x8861900 0x0 0x0)
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dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily(2.0.1)@0x94d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x956000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
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10H574
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Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov 5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,2 (Mac-F2268EC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 104372700576
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(none)
loaded kexts:
com.deepseasoftware.driver.CDSDAudioCaptureSupport 1.2.1
com.roxio.BluRaySupport 1.1.3
com.SiliconImage.driver.Si3132 1.2.3
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 2.2.05
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, PCI, 256 MB
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USB Device: CanoScan, 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.), 0x2220, 0x26220000
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USB Device: Display iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8508, 0x26242000
USB Device: Apple LED Cinema Display, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9236, 0x26243000
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USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0237, 0x04600000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000
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Cheers.

salty777 wrote:
… I'll mostly use it for titles, …
although allready sold/bought, an additional info:
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