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From: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.>=13 VM/kswapd/shmem/Oracle issue (was Re: Google's mm problems)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:39:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01110922391101.00807@nemo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15yhyY-0000Yb-00@starship.berlin> <20011109033851.A15099@asooo.flowerfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011109033851.A15099@asooo.flowerfire.com>

On Friday 09 November 2001 09:38, Ken Brownfield wrote:

> We're seeing an easily reproducible problem that I believe to be along
> the same lines as what Google is seeing.  I'm not sure if Oracle's SGA
> (shmem) can be mlock()ed, but I'm guessing there's a state analogous to
> Solaris' ISM.  We're seeing this on a 4GB machine with HIGHMEM/HIGHMEM4G
> set, using 2.4.1{3,4,5-pre1}.

[SNIP]

Oracle is a horrendous memory hog.
Looks like it's getting more bloated with each next release.

If I will start some seriuos database programming,
I will try PostgreSQL first... it is at least Open Source,
we can see what's inside.

> Basically, this problem makes it impossible to run Oracle on Linux,
> which is really a massive problem from our point of view.  If someone
> could show me how to provide more useful information or further debug
> this problem, I would greatly appreciate it.  This includes specific
> alternate kernels, or perhaps without HIGHMEM4G or HIGHMEM.

Whee, looks like you guys really willing to resolve this...
Pity I can't do anything for you. Let's hope some VM folks will be
interested.
--
vda

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-09 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-30 23:07 Google's mm problems Daniel Phillips
2001-11-01 20:00 ` Google's mm problems with 2.4.13 and 4G of memory Sven Heinicke
2001-11-02 22:24   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-03 20:56 ` Google's mm problems Christian Ehrhardt
2001-11-04  3:29   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-05 16:10     ` Sven Heinicke
2001-11-09  9:38 ` 2.4.>=13 VM/kswapd/shmem/Oracle issue (was Re: Google's mm problems) Ken Brownfield
2001-11-09 22:39   ` vda [this message]
2001-11-15 17:40   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-15 17:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-17 15:54       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-18  6:17         ` Mike Galbraith
2001-11-18  6:27           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-18  7:14             ` Mike Galbraith
2001-11-15 20:07     ` Ken Brownfield

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