Re: Oracle on Linux, how reliable?

Thanks for the report, Terry.

How big is your database, if that's OK to ask?

How many reads per second? Writes?

Cheers,
Dennis

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Dennis G. Allard                               telephone: 1.310.399.4740
Ocean Park Software                                 http://oceanpark.com
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Terry Steyaert wrote:


> 

> We produce a data collection system to be sure different bolts on

> various cars and trucks are tight when they leave the factory.  Our

> original system was on Interactive Unix with Oracle 6.0.  Admittedly,

> the system had some flaws based upon Interactive Unix, and Oracle has

> had just a couple of fixes since Oracle 6.  The system was barely good

> for 24 hours before it needed to be rebooted.

> 

> We moved the system to RedHat Linux (actually 5.0), and the Try-and-Buy

> Oracle 8.0.5.  Put that in the plant in place of a system that barely

> lasted the 24 hours, and it has been up for just shy of 6 months.  (The

> shy was because I screwed up and had to reboot the system to restore

> it.)  (Please note, that long before it went into the plant we did

> purchase the Oracle license.)  Now that system does have some Oracle

> problems.  Oracle doesn't support Linux before 5.2, so it will

> occationally corrupt a database table.  We have several systems out

> with Linux 5.2 and Oracle 8.0, plus 6.0 and 8.1.5, and they are running

> just great.

> 

> I really can't compare to Solaris.  About four years ago, we decided we

> would move from Interactive Unix to Solaris for Intel.  Got the

> Solaris, and "upgraded" one of our licenses from Interactive Systems to

> Solaris and couldn't get Oracle to load.  Through technical support, at

> my prompting, we finally figured out that the Oracle that we upgraded

> to was for RISC, not Intel chips!  I tried for about 3 months to get

> Oracle for Solaris for Intel, but never could, so I cannot say how it

> would work on Solaris.

> 

> Terry Steyaert

> steyaert_at_my-deja.com