Re: Stability of Oracle8 on Linux?

If you are using heavy disk I/O, switch from EIDE to SCSI. The EIDE disks will not hold up under linux. When the OS wants to write, it writes. Several simultaneous requests tends to corrupt EIDE drives, SCSI has no problem. We had a DNS primary server that you could tell time by when it ate the hard drive. No EIDE drive lasted longer than 3 months. Has been running U/W SCSI for 1.5yrs with no problem.

FYI
Daniel

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote:

> hosia_at_lut.fi (Tuomas Hosia) writes:
>
> > james_at_oranda.com (James McCabe) kirjoitteli seuraavaa:
> >
> > >I work for a company which is the process of choosing a database for
> > >the backend of an application which will put a heavy load on it. I was
> > >wondering how stable and scalable the Linux port of Oracle 8 is? The
> > >specific version of Linux we are using is Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.036
> > >with 256M RAM.
> >
> I use it for development (Debian 2.0, 64M P2000, EIDE)
> It works fine for this purpose, except it suddenly crashed
> with 'block corrupted', the machine and instance was
> up. It just crashed suddenly. I experience this in the past
> when used 7.1 with iBCS, but people said it was inode large
> number iBCS related problem. What it was now I don't know
> Any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Sincerely Yours, Konstantin Kivi, Russia, konst_at_sirena.rinet.ru
> aka <k-kivi_at_usa.net>, 2:5020/457.24_at_fidonet.org
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 01 1999 - 18:16:52 CST