> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Geiser [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 9:52 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Oracle on HP Systems
>
> Jim,
>
> > So yesterday the 10GB system we moved to Oracle/Unix ran it's
> > li'l ol' 88 GB out of disk space.  Seems that there was a
> > runaway Oracle process stuffing log file(s).
>
> Well, think of it -- if you can afford to license Oracle, you can afford
> the
> disks required to run the beast - runaway log processes and all ;)
>
> Besides - what's another 20GB... <hehehe (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 Art Bahrs,
> Used with Permission>
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>
        Howdy,

        Well just let me say this about that.

        My parents grew up during the depression of the '30's and I grew up
computerwise in
        assembler language.  Eight thousand bytes total instruction length
was 2 8 bit bytes.
        The display was a "page" of memory.  Yep direct drive.  But one you
defined that page
        as a display page there went 256 bytes.  You were not judged on how
prolific nor
        elequant your code was, the thing you *always* had at the top of yer
head was
        "how tight can I make it".

        This is a small outfit doing a big job and yeah we got the bucks for
another 44GB
        but I grew up learning to use things in a judicious and conservative
manner.  I keep
        trying to get to the "waste not want not" part but I'm inna hury
(see how I conserved
        an r there).  So let's just say Oragle is a blatant waste of system
and human resources
        aided and abetted by it's buddy Unix.

        Jim - bad day - T.