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

From: James Youngman <JYoungman_at_vggas.com>
Date: 1998/01/02
Message-ID: <wkhg7mvl37.fsf@vggas.com>#1/1

>>>>> "Kristian" == Kristian Koehntopp <kris_at_koehntopp.de> writes:

  Kristian> That's nothing. ;) The entire Deja News search engine runs
  Kristian> on Linux SMP systems (>50 dual PPro currently and moving
  Kristian> to dual Pentium IIs).  These machines handle over 3.5
  Kristian> Million hits per day, with peak load of about 50 page
  Kristian> views per second.  They have already ditched one operating
  Kristian> system for instability and if Linux SMP wasn't reasonably
  Kristian> stable, they would have ditched it long ago.  The most
  Kristian> common cause for a machine failure is power outages.  We
  Kristian> have seen some instability in 2.0.31, but for our
  Kristian> hardware, 2.0.32 is pretty solid.

Which OS got ditched? Did anyone ever write a case study up? Received on Fri Jan 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CST