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

Leigh Porter <leigh_at_wisper.net> writes:
>Hey, would the DejaNews people - or have they written some gumph on how they set
>it up and what hardware it runs on so that the world can be told?

• quote on --- ~From: tschenk_at_dejanews.com (Thomas Schenk) ~Newsgroups: netuse.lists.linux-smp ~Subject: Re: How stable and useful are SMP Linux now? ~Date: 3 Dec 1997 22:31:02 +0100

On 03-Dec-97 Dave Andruczyk wrote:
>>
>> Our lab is going to buy new server and use Linux on it.
>> We are thinking about two-processor Pentium II machine.
>> (maybe it really become 2-cpu later, but smp-motherboart just
>> now).
>> Does SMP Linux enough usable for production machine now?
>
> I manage server dual Pentium Pro servers, and a Single PII server. All
> of them are rock solid under linux. The PPro are running on a FIC PN6210
> mainboard, 128 megs ram, aha2940UW scsi, with 256k cache chips. The P11
> is running off of a Tyan Tiger Mboard wiht 128 megs ram. All systems see
> typically high loads, sometimes over 20 ( load avg), and have never
> failed due to the OS.
>
>> Will it be so where 2.2.xx will be released?
>
> PII's are great with only 512 megs of RAM, Ppro's can handle 1Gig.
>

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

Tom Schenk
System Admin

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