Re: Second HBA to east io on E250?

From: Ste Kearney (stek1961_at_macSPAM.com)
Date: 09/24/04


Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:21:12 +0100

On 24/9/04 3:15 pm, in article BD79EA77.732A%stek1961@macSPAM.com, "Ste
Kearney" <stek1961@macSPAM.com> wrote:

> We have one of these venerable old machines hosting an Oracle application
> and a message queue on it's internal disks.
>
> It's suffering from delayed writes and the Oracle boys want to move the
> message queue off the disks onto a bog simple flexpack with a 36gb disk on
> the end of Sun PCI SCSI Controller (X6540A), leaving Oracle to churn away on
> the internal disks....
>
> My thought is to move the MQ onto another machine entirely, thinking even a
> specced up E250 (I don't know how specced up this one is yet) might struggle
> with anything made by Oracle plus a message queue.
>
> Just looking for opinions based on this scant information! I'm still waiting
> for copies of the iostat and vmstat logs etc.....
>
> Of course, this system is REALLY important but obviously not enough to
> warrant an newer box!

More info, Oracle boys want to add:

1 x SG-XDSK020C-72G Sun Flexipack

2 x 36GB HDD

! x X6540A Sun dual PCI card Ultra scsi controller

1 x X3832A 2M VHDCI to 68pin SCSI cable

Steve



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