Memory Requirement

[Smirjit Singh]

Hi,

We are going to buy another L classe server. Where we have planned to buy only 512 MB RAM. Netscape,Weblogic,Oracle 8i would run on that server. I think 512 MB Ram would not be sufficient .

I need your advise.

Sandip

[Mark Ferraretto · Accepted solution]

Depends on the size of your site ie: database size, web site size, # transactions, traffic between weblogic and the web server etc. 512MB may be enough for a smallish site but I think it may be a tight squeeze - especially with all 3 apps on the one box.

We're running iPlanet, WebLogic, Oracle 8i setup and we've got each app on a separate server and each server has at least 1GB RAM. But this is a big install - 20 boxes, lots of ServiceGuard, gigabit networks bla bla...

[Philip Chan_1]

For RDBMS the amount of memory needed will depend on the size of your databases. As you probably know that more memory could improve cache rate and that is just one very important factor for eliminting physical disk I/Os (that apply for file system objects too). In your case, 512 MB may be enough but having 1 GB would put you on the safe side. Compare the cost of these extra 512 MB memory with the entire server, if that only increase the total cost by a couple percents then I would just buy it.

My 2 cents.

~Philip

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

To run Netscape,Weblogic and Oracle 8i, I would warmly recommend you to go for at least 1GB of RAM, unless you're intending to run a pretty small database.

Oracle 8i requires quite a lot of memory if you want some performances.

Best regards,

Dan

[Mose Burton Jr ms1280]

A recommendation is to start with minimum of 1GB of memory per processor.

[Brian Lin]

Weblogic will consume lots memory area, so from BEA recommended is 64mb, and from our experienced value is -ms128m -mx256m to run WL.