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

From: Bjorn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no>
Date: 1997/12/19
Message-ID: <m2en3935wq.fsf@lucifer.guardian.no>#1/1

[markp28665_at_aol.com (MarkP28665)]
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| Actually, I think most Unix shops run Oracle on SMP machines.

I think that depends a lot on what kind of companies you work with. I've done projects for engineering companies, banks and universities and I can only remember one Oracle server that ran on an SMP-system -- and that was not UNIX.

but I think (and hope) that as more and more databases are moved to UNIX platforms within large corporations, SMP machines will be more commonplace and that software will be better at utilizing the power of more CPUs. (actually my workstation is a SMP machine and databases like Solid runs just fine on it).

| In the last four years I have never worked on an Oracle database
| running under Unix that was not an SMP machine.

perhaps you work on a lot larger installations than most of us? the databases I work on are rarely larger than 50 tables/schema with tables containing from ~1000 to ~5.000.0000 rows.

| Even the three OpenVMS systems I have worked which were/are all
| single cpu mcahines are multi-cpu capable without having to make any
| changes to Oracle.
|
| The three biggest Oracle systems I know of are all Oracle Parallel
| Server shops so I disagree with the posts that say OPS is not
| necessary or that raw partitions are not needed except for OPS. I
| like using raw partitions and async i/o for its superior performance
| over conventional file systems.

if you're doing data warehousing or you have really large databases you would probably want OPS and you would probably also want a blame-distribution-system, also known as "service contract", in which case you are more likely to get a more traditional UNIX system from HP or something like that.

most of the applications I work on use databases that are relatively simple. usually the database is the data-backend for webapplications,  sometimes I use it in system administration tools (for managing users and resources) and recently I have tried to make use of databases to store semi digested logs from several web-servers.

there seems to be an increased need for rather simple database uses. I think Linux would do nicely.

-Bjørn

-- 
 Bjørn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no>       | "The Net interprets censorship 
 <URL:http://www.pvv.unit.no/~borud/>  | as damage and routes around it."
 UNIX person, one of "them"            |         - John Gilmore
Received on Fri Dec 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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