Re: Oracle & Linux & SMP

From: Anton Dischner <dischner_at_klch.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:52:38 +0100
Message-ID: <021219991552381865%dischner@klch.med.uni-muenchen.de>

Hi Ullrich,

we tested a 2*PII 400 MHz with Oracle 8.0.5 and Suse Linux 6.0. System passed a stress-test (no-users) quite well, even with 'old' kernel.

Only problem were damaged oracle-files on power-failure.

Toni

waiting for journaled-filesystem for Linux. :-)

>does anyone know if Oracle 8 on Linux supports SMP?

>
> Wrong question to ask IMHO as SMP support is provided by the operating
> system and not the application software like Oracle.
>
> If the operating system supports SMP, Oracle will simply scale better.

right. Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 08:52:38 CST