Re: OT: Laptop Memory of "Oracle Lab" -- 16gb support "good enough"?
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Justin Mungal <justin@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 09:21:35 +0000
I have a machine with 16gb ram, My RAC vms use 2g ram (but I have 3 of them
since 2 node is a special case :) ) As Justin points out EM12c really wants
a significant chunk of memory so I rarely run all 4 vms at the same time.
If I had a 32gb machine I probably would.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Justin Mungal <justin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I opted for an m6700 with 32GB of memory. That way I could run 12c RAC,
> 12c Cloud Control, a few stand-alone instances, and all my standard apps at
> the same time. The virtualized 2-node RAC and the Cloud Control VM use 14GB
> just on their own (4GB per node, 6GB for Cloud Control).
>
> The laptop itself is bigger and more expensive, but that doesn't bother me
> much as I don't move it around very much. I just checked the Dell website
> and the m4800, which has a smaller form factor, supports up to 32GB of RAM.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Larry Elkins <elkinsl@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> Looking at buying a new laptop, and intend to use Oracle's VM and Linux
>> to mimic various production scenarios, playing with things
>> like RAC, Data Guard, Golden Gate, OEM 12c, etc. There was a discussion
>> last January where some wished felt fine with 16gb memory,
>> though some wondered if that would be enough. So, I want to revisit and
>> see if those limited to 16gb found they could meet their
>> needs?
>>
>> I know a lot depends on exactly what I intend to do, and what all is
>> running at the same time. So just more a generic question if
>> those limited to 16gb found they could do all they needed to do. There
>> are many more options for laptops supporting up to 16gb
>> versus those that will support up to 32gb (which also tend to be bigger,
>> heavier, and more expensive).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Larry G. Elkins
>> elkinsl@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cell: 214.695.8605
>>
>>
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