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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.ingres
- Subject: INGRES SERVERS
- Message-ID: <1804@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 22:21:18 GMT
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- Our server is quickly running out of gas (cpu-wise) and we need to upgrade.
- Our estimate is that we need a server with at least twice the cpu through-
- put of our current one. Further, we would prefer such an increase in
- single-stream performance, since we have a long sequential batch process
- stream that must be run each night and that must be finished by the time
- that interactive users begin to pound away in the morning. But we can try
- to parallelize some of it if necessary (we would rather not).
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- Our current server is a DEC 5000/240 running ULTRIX and INGRES 6.4 . It
- is almost certain that the successor to this machine will have to come from
- another vendor: DEC's MIPS RISC upgrade is way behind schedule, INGRES
- will not be available under ALPHA/VMS until next summer at the earliest,
- and a port to ALPHA/OSF/1 is at least a year away. Schedules slip.
-
- Looking at INGRES's "first tier" ports, it appears that our most likely
- choices (running UNIX) are SUN, HP, and IBM. I would appreciate
- hearing from anyone who:
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- 1. has evaluated these three for INGRES and their conclusions;
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- 2. is already using INGRES version 6.n in a mixed environment such as
- this (we did so with version 5, but INGRES was a different system
- then);
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- 3. has a good sense of how well INGRES "takes advantage" of a multi-cpu
- system, when that system is dedicated to INGRES server processes
- (we use INGRES/NET).
-
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- I will honor any requests to keep answers confidential.
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- Thank you,
-
- Greg Pavlov
- pavlov@karloff.fstrf.org
-