Colin Dawson wrote:
> Without revealing any company sensitive information, can anyone say if they are using a VLDB (>10TB) and what the transaction throughput is per minute. A client is sceptical about Informix being able to cope. I am on 9.40.FC8X3 at the moment but will be going to 10.00.FC8 soon.
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Have one client with a 400+GB database doing over 3Billion page updates
a day on 10.00FC6. Does that qualify as coping?

It's all about configuring a sufficient hardware software system and
tuning it properly.

Art S. Kagel
Oninit

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> Regards
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> Colin
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> There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't
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Art S. Kagel (Oninit LLC) wrote:
> Colin Dawson wrote:
>> Without revealing any company sensitive information, can anyone say if
>> they are using a VLDB (>10TB) and what the transaction throughput is
>> per minute. A client is sceptical about Informix being able to cope. I
>> am on 9.40.FC8X3 at the moment but will be going to 10.00.FC8 soon.
>>
>
> Have one client with a 400+GB database doing over 3Billion page updates
> a day on 10.00FC6. Does that qualify as coping?
>
> It's all about configuring a sufficient hardware software system and
> tuning it properly.
>

We assist in administering a 18TB install, the transaction is not huge
though - a thousand or so per second. The only real problem are the
backups - takes a while.

Oh and silly things like hitting the 32GB limit on a single extent.
Performance ? Simply stunning

Cheers
Paul

Paul Watson
Tel: +1 913-400-2620
Mob: +1 913-387-7529
Web: www.oninit.com

Failure is not as frightening as regret.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Art S. Kagel (Oninit LLC) wrote:
> Colin Dawson wrote:
>> Without revealing any company sensitive information, can anyone say if
>> they are using a VLDB (>10TB) and what the transaction throughput is
>> per minute. A client is sceptical about Informix being able to cope. I
>> am on 9.40.FC8X3 at the moment but will be going to 10.00.FC8 soon.
>>
>
> Have one client with a 400+GB database doing over 3Billion page updates
> a day on 10.00FC6. Does that qualify as coping?
>
> It's all about configuring a sufficient hardware software system and
> tuning it properly.
>

We assist in administering a 18TB install, the transaction is not huge
though - a thousand or so per second. The only real problem are the
backups - takes a while.

Oh and silly things like hitting the 32GB limit on a single extent.
Performance ? Simply stunning

Cheers
Paul

Paul Watson
Tel: +1 913-400-2620
Mob: +1 913-387-7529
Web: www.oninit.com

Failure is not as frightening as regret.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.





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