Re: online 7.22 and Sparc Solaris 2.5.1

On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 06:59:44 -0500, Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> wrote: >Vic Goldberg wrote: >> >> Juan R. Guzman wrote: >> > >> > I'm going to be installing online 7.22 on ultra's 3000 with Solaris >> > 2.5.1. Does informix require any patches other than the recommended >> > ones from Sun to be installed? >> >> Check the release notes. Those will give you the required patches, >> tested >> kernal parameters, and answer lots of questions for you. >> -- >> Victor Goldberg >> vic@tc.cornell.edu > >BTW, did informix overcome the 2 GB memory limitation yet? We haven't >installed Informix so I don't have any release notes. > >We've moving to 2.5.1 on an Enterprise 10,000 ( the big one ) and I was >wondering about this. We need all the memory we can get. The big one >can handle 64 GB of memory, so Informix, are you ready? > >Tim The last I heard the 2GB limiation is still in Informix 7.2. I just completed several benchmarks with both DEC Alpha and Sun E boxs for our data warehouse project and we had to partition the 4GB Dec drives and the 9GB Sun drive into 2GB partitions. Your application will determine how much memory will be used by Informix. On Dec you will have a better chance of using the large memory model because of the 64 bit Informix port. On Sun tricks are played to use memory above 2GBs and how well it uses very large memory models is yet to be seen.