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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: walter <walt@nea-fast.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oracle rmap kernel version
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:06:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <177640000.1015956385@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203121729.MAA08522@int1.nea-fast.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203121729.MAA08522@int1.nea-fast.com>

> Does anyone have any production experience running Oracle 8i on Linux? I've 
> run it at home, RH 7.2 with vanilla 2.4.16 kernel all IDE drives, and its 
> fast. We are replacing our SUN/Oracle 8 servers at work in next couple of 
> months with Linux/Oracle 8i (Pentium 4 1GB ram).  My question is, what is the 
> best kernel version to use,  vanilla 2.4.x or a RH kernel built from the ac 
> tree with rmap. All drives will be SCSI. 
> I read an interview yesterday with Rik van Riel where he said rmap worked 
> better for db servers but I expect that he is partial to rmap 8-).
> Our web servers are running vanilla 2.4.16 and we haven't had a problem yet 
> (knock on wood).

The real answer is to try them and do a benchmark for your particular
application. Shouldn't take that long .... try the -aa tree too.

Martin.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-12 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-12 17:29 oracle rmap kernel version walter
2002-03-12 18:06 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-03-12 18:34   ` Jonathan A. Davis
2002-03-13  6:03 ` Jauder Ho
2002-03-13 17:10 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-12 20:04 Chen, Kenneth W
2002-03-13 19:40 ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-13 20:56   ` walter
2002-03-13 21:11     ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-13 22:27       ` Gerrit Huizenga

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