sellers@icni.UUCP (Dave Sellers) (10/31/90)
We have selected INGRES as the RDB (for many reasons which I don't need to get into). We also have VAXs as one of the main platforms, and have moved into SUN4 for workstations, and HP9000/870 machines in a smaller way. I have been asked about INGRES performance by a number of people, plus I have seen in this news group discussions about "hot" db machines (VAX not being one of them). Did anyone keep any of this information? Is there any real applications running out there with 300 users? On what machine? Any measurements to base sizing on? Any rule of thumb? We have one project that has bought a VAX 9000 for INGRES without doing any benchmarks first! One comment so far is that "its the wrong machine for the job". Another comment was "if you have a choice between a fast single processor and slower multi processor box, pick the faster single processor box". Any comments? Please post here, or email via utzoo!censor!bert!icni!sellers Thanks -- Dave Sellers Data Communications Advisor Internal Communications Network - Implementation Bell Canada, 483 Bay St., Toronto, Ont., (416) 581-5913