Re: NT: Oracle 7.3.4 vs. Oracle 8.04

nasof_at_hotmail.com wrote:

> In article <35C2C31F.B580781B_at_austin360.com>,
> Allan Nelson <nels212_at_austin360.com> wrote:
> > Tom Pall wrote:
> >
> > > I have a high visibility small database running under Oracle 7.3.4 which
> > > has been encountering ORA-0600. While giving us the patch, Oracle
> > > suggested going to Oracle 8 to correct the problem.
> > >
> > > Just how stable and reliable is Oracle 8.04 on NT?
> >
> > Oh, about as stable as any other high demand application on NT. I run
> > about three large instances on several servers all at 4.0 with SP3. I
> > guess I lose about 1 instance a week due to things like the listner
> > branching and linking with free space, lockup of the GUI and consequent
> > need to reboot the server.
> > NT is an evolving environment and Oracle 8 is fairly new, so some of this I
> > guess is inevitable. I sure wish however, that this project was on UNIX
> > though. I have instances over there that I haven't had to shut down for
> > over a year. I should mention thought that I have a lot of UNIX experience
> > and compartively little NT experience.
> >
> >
>
> What is "listener branching and linking with free space"?
>
> Also what GUI locks up and where are you running it? IF you are running GUI
> apps on your NT Database server, I ask you this: Would you sit down and run
> all kinds of GUI apps directly on the "console" of your unix box?
>
> Just curious,
> Frank
>
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  The listener refuses to accept connections and can't be killed. The loggin facilities don't show any connection activities. When observed in taskmgr it is getting a lot of CPU activity. As for what I'm doing on the console, I'm running the very necessary GUI's to administer the system and to find out what is going on with them.

As for running on the UNIX console, if it was a workstation, yes certainly, where else should I run GUI apps?
In the case of a server, I usually configure those with ascii terminals but yes, I run whatever I need to run from the console. Mostly admin commands. The machines don't lock up.

BTW, considering that NT is built so that it expects a single user per machine and expects that user context on the system console where do you run things like the disk admin tool, the user admin tool , and/or the taskmanager. If there are command line equivelants, I would really like to know.

Thanks
Allan Received on Sun Aug 02 1998 - 13:39:08 CDT