Help with optimal alpha UNIX kernal for Oracle

From: Robert Andrew Power <robertp_at_crux.csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 1996/11/18
Message-ID: <56qmqq$k5n@hercules.its.csiro.au>#1/1

What sort of UNIX kernal parameters do you use to get the best out of Oracle on an alpha. We want to have a large SGA to cache as much data as we can.

I've just installed Oracle 7.3.2.1.0 on an alpha with 250M RAM and 183MHz alpha processor. Then I applied the 7.3.2.2.0 patch.

We also redid the UNIX kernal as recommended in Appendix C of the Installation Guide for Digital UNIX.

The machine ran like a dog, so we undid the UNIX kernal changes and everything seems to be ok.

Any suggestions/recomendations?

Thanks,

Robert Power

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robert.power_at_cmis.csiro.au                      Software Engineer

CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Canberra Laboratory

PO Box 664                                      tel: +61 6 216 7039
Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA.                    fax: +61 6 216 7112


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Received on Mon Nov 18 1996 - 00:00:00 CST