Re: Oracle8 on Linux ok?

Tuomas Hosia (hosia_at_lut.fi) wrote:
: "Søren Klintrup" <bigchief_at_aub.dk> kirjoitteli seuraavaa:

: >George Dau <gedau_at_isa.mim.com.au> wrote in message
: >news:37136a1d.71500281_at_158.54.6.109...
: >> "Søren Klintrup" <bigchief_at_aub.dk> wrote:
: >>
: >> ]I've seen many Linux systems crash ... more than NT in fact ... - not
: >that
: >> ]is says anything .. just my personal experience ...
: >>
: You have seen a Linux crash? On what? Faulty hardware?
: I'd like to hear as I haven't had such a luck.

In about 30 up-years of Linux (I've many Linux systems and have been running it since 0.12 days) I've seen kernel crashes on production systems about 6 times. Development systems a lot more, of course, but then I was kernel hacking!!! In roughly the same Solaris up-years, I've seen about the same number of kernel panics. In many less NT up-years I've seen a lot more blue screens (or more commonly, resource starvation when programs don't terminate cleanly and can't be killed, forcing a reboot).

I wouldn't use Linux in a large production environment (eg with mirrored disks) because it doesn't scale that high, efficiently. YET! As a development platform it's pretty good! I've been writing all my DBA scripts against a Linux machine, and debugging/testing there before moving to a production environment. Heh, the last time the HP's failed to run the code because of a bug in the HPUX shell!!!

BTW this message written on a Linux server...  10:23pm up 103 days, 10:51, 2 users, load average: 0.65, 0.94, 0.95

But it's not an oracle server; it's an internet server.

My Linux oracle development servers... (currently testing automated log shipping - switch logfiles, copy to other machine, startup standby, apply logs, shutdown standby)

 10:24pm  up 70 days,  9:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 10:24pm  up 71 days,  4:19,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 10:24pm  up 67 days,  9:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01

The third machine's running behind because it had SIMM memory faults....

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rgds
Stephen Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 16:29:51 CDT