appropriate hardware for running Oracle9i

[Sven Anderson]

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

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Erik,
More important than CPU, you need more memory. 256MB isn't enough to run the current version of Eclipse decently. Let alone Tomcat and Oracle 9i.

[Sven Anderson]

Hi,

Thanks for your posting. So having more RAM is more important than CPU speed? The only thing I am scared of is if a P3 is not enough

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Erik,
On my old computer, I tried running with 1.3 CPU and 256 MB. It spent so much time paging that it couldn't manage to even repaint the screen. I would have to spend five minutes waiting for it to come back. To be fair, this was with Eclipse 3.0. Eclipse 2.1 marginally ran. But even then, my CPU never went over 50%. All the time went to paging memory to disk.

One recommendation: go see what Oracle and Tomcat list as their system requirements.