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An anonymous reader asks: "I, like many of my fellow Outlook-using geek friends, like to set funny sounds to be played when a new message arrives ('Leeroy Jenkins' is the one I have set now). However, we have always wanted to be able to have random sounds be played when a new message arrives, rather than the same sound over and over. I've searched high and low, and I was hoping Slashdot could suggest/write a program that can randomly play sound files from a specified folder when a new message arrives. Any ideas?"
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Hello Everyone, I'm the project manager for an Oracle data warehouse. I'm currently trying to size two new database servers. I've seen some great analysis, suggestions, tips, rants and
similar questions. in previous articles and I was hoping to get some insight from the slashdot community. I have talked with our system admins but I disagree with their recommendations. They really don't have much insight into our processes since they only perform basic maintenance for the servers. We're currently using a few Dell 1650 dual-processor servers (P3 1.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, 700GB RAID5 PowerVault storage).
I'm trying to improve our batch processing times and for the most part we are I/O bound. Our two largest databases are around 90GB and 120GB stored in an Oracle 9i database and new versions are created 4 - 6 times a year. The schema is around 60 tables but with 10 large and frequently used tables. A typical query will scan through 100s of millions rows for a multi-table join. We typically only have 1-5 users on at the same time.
My requirements are:
- Dual or quad processor machine
- CPU speed. Whatever is currently "standard". We're not CPU bound. Although I keep wondering if there will be a benefit to using an 8MB vs. 1MB L2 cache processor
- Minimum of 4GB RAM - We have been unable to really take advantage of more RAM. We're using Win2K, Win2K3 and they seem limited to how much RAM can be used under oracle. Our DBA's ran this process on a 32GB server with 16 processors and there were negligible benefits.
- 1 TB diskspace from either a PowerVault or purchasing space on the local NAS
- Budget: 30K per server and storage
- Good maintenance contract. The current preferred suppliers are Dell and Sun but I might be able to get something different if I can justify it.
Performance is our critical concern; we can afford to lose the data since we can recreate it relatively quickly. So I'm thinking of just using a JBOD configuration. Some time ago I asked the sys admins to test a server with a NAS configured in a single LUN RAID5 configuration and a single LUN JBOD configuration. We saw no practical differences in performance; apparently the NAS had 12GB of cache so there was a minimal performance penalty for the RAID5 configuration.
So what factors do I need to consider? Do you have any server recommendations?
Thanks!
P.S. I'm hoping to set some time to test Postgresql by the end of this year. Does anyone know if it has similar I/O patterns to Oracle?
sqlwriter at gmail.com
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