evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris

evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris

[Adam Heath]

So, we are getting reading to do some testing of oracle/postgres here,
using 2 domU instances, same hardware, memory, disk, etc.  Standard stuff.  We
are doing this to see which is better(a current client of ours insists on
oracle, and the extra $$ that comes with it).

They also use solaris as their OS, and expensive sun boxes.

However, if opensolaris were ported to xen, then we could do even more
side-by-side comparisons.  The license of opensolaris should allow this.

So, this is an open question: does anyone find this interesting, and would be
willing to work on it?  Unfortunately, we don't have time, nor the knowledge,
to do this(neither solaris nor xen internals), but are willing to help test.



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Re: evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris

[Jon Smirl]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:08:10 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath
<doogie@brainfood.com> wrote:
> So, we are getting reading to do some testing of oracle/postgres here,
> using 2 domU instances, same hardware, memory, disk, etc.  Standard stuff.  We
> are doing this to see which is better(a current client of ours insists on
> oracle, and the extra $$ that comes with it).

Sybase is offering free commercial use of their flagship Linux ASE if
you can fit in these limits:  one CPU, 5GB of data storage and 2GB of
RAM.

http://www.sybase.com/linuxpromo

> They also use solaris as their OS, and expensive sun boxes.
> 
> However, if opensolaris were ported to xen, then we could do even more
> side-by-side comparisons.  The license of opensolaris should allow this.
> 
> So, this is an open question: does anyone find this interesting, and would be
> willing to work on it?  Unfortunately, we don't have time, nor the knowledge,
> to do this(neither solaris nor xen internals), but are willing to help test.
> 
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RE: evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris

[James Harper]

> 
> Sybase is offering free commercial use of their flagship Linux ASE if
> you can fit in these limits:  one CPU, 5GB of data storage and 2GB of
> RAM.
> 
> http://www.sybase.com/linuxpromo
> 

Purely my own stupid fault and I don't think any reflection on Sybase,
but I had a system rootkitted by an easy to guess password on the Sybase
user (I think it was just 'sybase' - either I had a lapse of sense or
that's the default and I didn't change it).

It was one of the ssh intrusion bots that did it I think.

James


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Re: evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris

[Adam Heath]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Wes Felter wrote:

> Wouldn't it be much easier to just dual-boot Linux and Solaris?

That requires shutting each one down to switch to the other.


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