RE: Oracle 9.2.0.4 on Gentoo

Isn't that what Oracle says for 9i2, too? (tu-tu?) My Gentoo box only has 384MB to run a small 60MB instance, the listener, NFS, SSH, and since it's also a desktop, Enlightenment, Tora, MozFirebird and Opera7, GKrellM, several ATerms, and I'm not using swap and still have something like 50MB free physical after five Perl/DBD::JDBC connections to the DB from another box. And the modest P-III 866 slides along nicely serving up Oracle with all of this running.

Oh wait, if I fire up VLC or Xine, the CPU hits 60%. And Kino pushes it to 100%. And I might actually hit some swap with Kino...stupid A/V processing wants RAM. Go figure.

WinWhat??? :D

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:14 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Oracle 9.2.0.4 on Gentoo
>
>
> Do you know of the minimum system requirements for Oracle
> "ten grands"?
> My informaton tells me that 512MB RAM will be specified as a minimal
> requirement.
> On 10/24/2003 11:44:53 AM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > More of an FYI than anything...
> >
> > Kernel: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 (from Gentoo 1.4 stage 1 tarball)
> > glibc: 2.3.2-r1
> >
> > 9.2.0.1 from the disks installed with the usual linking problems
> > mentioned
> > on various websites (ctx libs, etc.). Since I didn't really care
> > about
> > running 9.2.0.1, I ignored the errors. I d/l'd the 9.2.0.4
> patch and
> > did
> > the usual installer upgrade, then patched to 9.2.0.4 -- without a
> > single
> > error or issue!
> >
> > No kiddin', the damnable thing came through with flying colors, at
> > least on
> > the core DB stuff. I've got a DB manually created on the first try,
> > configured networking (again, "manual" is the only way to fly), and
> > I'm up
> > and running. No glibc flipping, no makefile hacking, no nothing.
> >
> > I'm almost bold enough to try stripping everything in $OH/bin and
> > blindly
> > see if I can gain any significant performance. Hey, I'm
> only on page
> > 19 of
> > Cary's and Jeff's book... :D
> >
> > Just thought this was interesting enough to merit posting. Perhaps
> > good
> > enough for a dev box for some. Hey, Gentoo is already grid-enabled
> > with
> > distcc in Portage! :)
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> > rjesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

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