Re: Insuffficient HW for Oracle 10g?

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:35:48 +1000
Message-ID: <40aea055$0$1586$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

"Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.verwijderdit.demon.nl> wrote in message news:jjesa0tb0tqfck541v94j8pqlp70ma70ss_at_4ax.com...
> On 21 May 2004 08:49:31 -0700, mrazek_at_compik.fd.cvut.cz (Martin
> Mrazek) wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >although I have only 256MB of RAM (win xp prof), the installer of
> >oracle 10g didn't protested to install. The performance of my comp
> >went down considerably. There are a lot of automatically started
> >processes belonging to oracle (in win task manager>processes for
> >example oracle.exe, isqlplus...). How can I force Oracle not to start
> >these automatically after turning on the comp, but just when I work
> >with oracle?
> >
> >MM
>
> Most of these services don't do anything when you don't use them. They
> don't use CPU and they hardly consume memory.
> Consider upgrading your RAM to at least 512 M. Oracle 10g is not
> Personal Oracle 7.3, and you are doing yourself a disservice if you
> try to learn a crippled product. And sqlplus for windows doesn't exist
> anymore in 10g, so you *have* to use isql*plus, if you don't want to
> work with DOS boxes.

That's not true. Not that it matters, since sqlplusw is horrible anyway. But it's there, and I did accidentally use it just last night.

Regards
HJR Received on Fri May 21 2004 - 19:35:48 CDT