Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

there is NO WAY the pc hardware end of linux would be able to handle running oracle in any decent manner. plus its tweaking is rather limited compared to solaris and hpux. i have run oracle on both suns and hp boxes - there's just no way linux is ready (yet) for oracle.

i currently run oracle 7.2.3 on hp9000/s800/k210's running hpux 10.10 with a gig of memory each. that's alright for running oracle.

but imagine a pc with linux and a motherboard limitation of 128M, a 200Mhz processor... i don't think so...

linux is good for being a workstation, or a small server - but the heavy duty shit - better leave it to superior hardware and os's.

thanks,
- tip

In article <m2yb1epk0h.fsf_at_lucifer.guardian.no>, Bjorn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no> wrote:
>[joelga_at_pebble.ml.org (Joel Garry)]
>|
>| With the top-end MP PC's, PC is a misnomer. I don't think parallel
>| servers are a bad topic for this at all. Too bad the original post
>| was such a troll.
>
>the problem with PCs is that you still have to be very careful when
>building them because compared to traditional UNIX-server hardware
>they are still not very robust. I've had disks litterally burn up
>inside the cabinet because cooling is usually bad and my dual P6 needs
>about 3 new cooling fans per year.
>
>the problems with PCs is usually shitty hardware.
>
>but as far as performance is concerned there is nothing near the price
>ranges of PCs that gives you more bang for the buck. often I
>preprocess data on my workstation instead of the database machine,
>because the Intel running Linux is several times faster.
>
>| Yeah, that business plan youse guys were talking about - try
>| packaging linux servers with a few million of NC's. That oughta get
>| Larry's attention.
>
>do we know anyone who knows Larry personally and could give him a call
>and explain to him what Linux is and that there are some people who
>would really like to run Oracle on it? :-)
>
>
>PS: I'd like to run Designer/2000 on Linux as well :-)
>
>-Bjørn
>--
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> <URL:http://www.pvv.unit.no/~borud/> | as damage and routes around it."
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