Re: New IDS Server: 32 or 64bit?

Do you know where I can download IDS 9.4? Thanks. On Mar 28, 7:34 am, Richard Spitz <Richard.Sp...@med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > Dear Informixers, > > we've been running IDS 7.31 engine on a Linux machine (SuSE 7.2) for over > 6 years without any larger hassles. Now I have an opportunity to upgrade > to IDS 10 on a new(er) machine and have to decide whether to stay at 32bit > or go on to 64bit. Machine is a dedicated Intel XEON-based server, AFAIK this > platform supports both 32bit and 64bit versions of SuSE SLES 10. All database > connections (except for occasional "dbaccess" sessions on the server itself) > will come over the network from separate machine. > > The databases are rather small, total volume is currently less than 4GB with > an annual growth rate of less than 500MB. > > What benefit would I gain by going 64bit? What pitfalls should I take into > account? The server will have 2GB of RAM, which should be plenty for the > job and be usable for IDS10 in both the 32 and 64 Bit environment. > > Another question: The new machine will have only 2 Disks, which I plan to > configure as RAID 1 (mirroring), so there will be no dedicated spindle(s) > for the database chunks. I've been following the various threads in this > newsgroup about optimal disk layout and usage, but most of the issues > discussed there don't really apply to my environment since the databases > and transaction volume are so small. What partitioning scheme for the > database engine would be advisable in my case? Just one partition for > everything, or two partitions (rootdbs and data), or even more? > > Regards, Richard

<thnguy01@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1175524286.457623.46980@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... > Do you know where I can download IDS 9.4? > > Thanks. You can download an evluation copy from www.iiug.org.