CHAPTER 4Sizing Oracle 10g on Linux Systems
One of the most important tasks that you must perform when designing an Oracle system is sizing. Sizing is the act of determining the amount of hardware resources you must configure for your system. It is closely related to another subject: capacity planning. This chapter will begin by introducing these topics and will explain a bit of the mathematics behind sizing and capacity planning. Some of the basic performance characteristics of different components of your computer system will be covered as well.
Although sizing and capacity planning are closely related, there are some significant differences in their end goal. Sizing is the estimation of the hardware requirements necessary to process a workload ...
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