Re: Informix/FourGen Requirements???

> caseeval@iaccess.za (CASE Evaluation) writes: > Re: Informix/FourGen platform. > > We are therefore about to upgrade but have been offered two solutions: > > 1) 3xP5 Pentium Corollary C-Bus II machine running SCO Unix; > 2) Quad RISC chip Sun, or Quad RISC Data General running S5R4. > > What we would like to know: > a) which platform (RISC or Intel) is the better option both in the > short and long term; > b) has anyone running FourGen apps out there found a hardware solution > offering sufficient response; > c) what platform/technology is correct for the type of system > we are running. > > Other points to consider: > i) upgradability of Informix to ver 6 or ver 7? > ii) hardware increasing network throughput? > iii) obviously price/performance. > >>>> We have reasently upgraded from a single processor 486/50 machine to a Pentium 100 MHz, with about the same disk/controller configuration using SCO Unix. We realized a between 2 and 3 times the performance on Informix OnLine 6.0. CPU speed seems to be very important. A later upgrade to 7.10 didn't make any difference on performance for us. On a multi disk/CPU machine it has more tuning options though, but we havent realy started using that yet. Informix says you need at least 4 CPUs to fully realize the 7.10 potentiallity and be able to start any real tuning of CPU resources. The current version of SCO MPX (multi processor extention) doesn't support processor affinity, so this may possibly limit your tuning options. The new version just announced may support this. We are going to buy new machines and a key element for us is Informix's porting plans. Sun, HP and possibly 1 or 2 others seems to be what they develop on, and realease on first. This we expect also results in the best ports beeing awaylable on these machines. Would appreciate comments from others on this though! Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM-data, Dalsbergstien 7, N-0170 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company