--- "Freeman, Donald" <dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We set up a side by side comparison to test our > Oracle DB application on > Windows 2003 32 Bit vs. Red Hat Linux. We set up > two virtual > partitions and alternately stopped one and tested > the other. We have > been reading different benchmark tests and came to > believe that we would > see a 30% to 40% performance advantage using linux. > We used Load > Runner and tested three program functions with > 30-60-90 users. Windows > performed about 10% better. Does anybody have any > advice or > observations on this? Any configuration advice? > > Don Freeman > Database Administrator 1 > Bureau of Information Technology > Pennsylvania Department of Health > (717) 703-5782 > > What version of Linux? I do believe that the 2.6 kernel has better IO performance than the 2.4 kernel. If you're on 2.4, I'd try and upgrade to 2.6 and see if that makes any difference. -- mohammed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l