Hello Niall, I also installed 11g, on windows 2003 sp2 machine running on vmware esx with 1 CPU and 1 GB. And I experienced no problems. Regards, Derya. On 10/31/07, Andre van Winssen <dreveewee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Niall, > > I installed 11g for windows couple of times already on windows2003 32 bit > without any problem during or after the installation and db creation (single > instance). One server was an ESX windows guest (2VCPU/2GB), the other two > were physical servers with 4 and 8 CPU's > > No complaints sofar, have logged two SR's sofar. A support analyst was > still thinking that 11.1.0.6 is BETA, another one overruled him that this > version is production software. > > DBControl has some nice improvements > > Regards, > Andre > > > 2007/10/30, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > List > > > > I've now made two attempts to install 11g on this dell laptop (2gb ram > > 1700mhz processor) the second having wiped all previous traces of Oracle > > from the machine. Both times the software installs fine, creating a custom > > db works fine, but then the CPU hogs at 100% for hours (I've left this > > overnight in case it was some em madness and come back to 11 hours of cpu > > usage in a 15 hour period!) Has anyone else experienced this? Right now 11g > > is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. > > > > -- > > Niall Litchfield > > Oracle DBA > > http://www.orawin.info > > > >