Re: Enterprise 8i on Linux or Solaris?

Martin

Can you tell me if rman works on your installation ? I have 8.1.6 EE running on SuSE 6.3 and it fails with (de?)allocating a channel. I have seen 3 or 4 other Linux users in this news group complaining about the same thing.

This could well be an issue for Daryl.

eric

Martin Welk wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:53:56 GMT, Cliff Palmer <cliff_at_palmercs.com> wrote:
>
> >Daryl, let me add my voice to those recommending Sun. I dont work for sun
> >(My personal preference is a Compaq Alphaserver, but Sun is a mature,
> >stable, supported platform with a long history of running Oracle well).
> >Linux will be there (and soon it appears) but I would be cautious about
> >trusting my business to it only because the examples of scaling I've seen
> >with Linux seem to always involve some extra something (code patch, unique
> >network topology, etc).
>
> Thank you for this statement. You point to one of the most important
> problems deriving not from Linux, but on the PC architecture if we're
> talking about Linux on PCs. The term "PC" in this context includes
> all Intel-x86-based systems and compatibles (some years ago, this was
> well-known as IBM-compatible, he he :-) ) - machines consisting of
> standard components are limited in their maximum amount of memory,
> you don't have much space for additional peripheral adapters and so
> on. And when it comes to using some Intel-based server machines like
> IBM's Netfinity series or Compaq servers, the prices differ significantly
> from standard PCs. When it comes to multiple CPUs, the battle goes on.
>
> In the end, you may find it cheaper to go with a different architecture
> from the very beginning :-)
>
> Apart from this, Linux offers also great stability and reliability.
>
> >You should consider your workload requirements. If you need to support 20
> >users with stable applications with moderate throughput requirements using a
> >few GB of data then Oracle on Linux may be a great and cost-effective
> >solution. If you need to support a higher demand environment then you shoud
> >definately consider Sun (or Dec Alpha :).
>
> Another architecture collegues of mine have made excellent experiences with
> is IBM's AIX on RS/6000 machines, especially with Oracle database.
>
> I'm currently building a test scenario with Oracle 8.1.6 EE on SuSE Linux
> 6.4, and so far it looks quite good. But this is an ordinary desktop PC,
> a Pentium-III 600 with IDE disks and I won't trust it when a production
> environment depends on it :-)
>
> Regards,
> Martin
Received on Fri Oct 27 2000 - 01:53:49 CDT