We ran 100 sessions on a 958. One dataset had 6 million records.

Richard Gambrell wrote:
>
> Wayne Brown wrote:
> ...
> >  When
> > I asked why he'd spend $20,000 on a tape drive for one-time use, but not a
> > few hundred for tapes we use every night, he told me the new drive came out
> > of the conversion budget, but the tapes came from the operating budget.
> > Funny, I always thought the budgets all came out of the same company's
> > assets...
> >
> > That's one of the many reasons I no longer work there.
>
> You sure this wasn't a University or College?:-)
>
> An esteemed member of the administration here recently said something like
> (referring to a prior administration of 4 or 5 years ago) "they couldn't
> find $150,000 for a new machine, but they could find $1,000,000 for a new
> [commercial software/oracle/unix] system".  Now, we have a couple of new
> machines and can't much use the $1M system - it doesn't support our
> academic policy needs and is too slow - so instead we're now going to move
> forward with our "leagcy" system (on new hardware), which we could have
> done previously for just the $150,000.
>
> The connection to this thread is that the prior machine (that wasn't
> replaced because we didn't have the $150,000) was a 960 - the big brother
> of the 950.  This machine, like all HP 3000s, was of great value if it is
> what you have to run you business on - we had a peak of 170 sessions all
> doing database transactions on ours before it was replaced (we limited it
> to "just" 170 because after that it *really* got too slow to even wait
> for).  You'll have to ask (or pay) Jeff Kell to find out how you run 170
> sessions doing database transactons on a 960.  I have trouble guessing
> what ceiling our 969/120 running the same software will have - I don't
> think we'll run into it anytime soon.
>
> >
> > Wayne
>
> --
> Richard L Gambrell
> Database Administrator and
> Consultant to Computing Services at UTC
>
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