Re: Ora on SCO Unix is crap?

Ken

Why do you say you need to use MTS? MTS is designed to get around a lack of memory issue in 7 (leaving aside the requirement for it in 8 with Connection Manager and connection pooling), but I can't see why you're making such a blanket statement that it's always needed?

Pete

Kenneth C Stahl wrote:

> If your concept of SCO includes Unixware then I've had quite a bit of success
> with Oracle on Unixware. Some 7.3.2, one 7.3.3 and several 7.3.4.
>
> Are you using MTS? If not, then you need to.
>
> Do you have enough memory available to Unix? If not, change the shared memory
> value and rebuild your kernal.
>
> Is your shared pool size big enough? If you only have the LARGE size that
> appears in initxxx.ora then you may need to increase it past that point.
>
> What type of processing do you typically do? On-line clients? Batch? Both
> have different needs - especially for rollback segments.
>
> You might also want to consider upgrading to at least 7.3.4.
>
> By the way - the RDBMS won't even notice 5000 transactions per day. That is
> extremely light usage in comparison to many databases. One of the production
> systems I work with does over 12,000 transactions an hour and I still
> consider that to be fairly light activity.
>
> Ken
>
> Khun Paul wrote:
>
> > Does somebody has any experience with Oracle on SCO Unix?
> >
> > We are running Oracle 733 on SCO with >200 connected users and about 5000
> > transactions/day.
> >
> > Up to today OK, but the real processing still has to start...
> >
> > Is it better to go for Sun or HP hardware/OS?
> >
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> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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Regards

Pete

Received on Mon Aug 09 1999 - 11:10:53 CDT