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By: psw2000

psw2000 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:16 +0000

First: It’s a very good move to seperate the application server and the oracle database server.
Another ‘it depends’ is “Where is the data?” If the data is on the same server as the Oracle instance (as opposed to being on a SAN array. Note: a SAN array is expensive but offers a big improvement in I/O processing) then I’d tend to have the this on the new/faster server (epsecially ture with the 10g “self tuning” database. The application server should have plentry of memory (but not much disk). If necessary get another (low cost) application server and load balance over the 2.
If you leave the database on the existing server consider getting more memory for it and increase/re-tune the various buffer pools (keep/recycle etc).
Regards
Peter
(based on my own experience changing tower servers to rack mounted servers).

By: bjag123

bjag123 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:52:12 +0000

The answer is, of course, “it depends”. You need to monitor both the database and application, to see if one or the other is more “needy” of resources. If BOTH happen to be equally “needy”, I would vote for the application software getting the extra resources. It doesn’t matter if you have a screaming database if your application interface is slow; the user will still see a slow response.