Re: What combination of Solaris & Oracle?

Solaris 8 and Oracle 8.1.7.

Solaris 8 because of its much better VM management and more detailed commands for problem and performance investigation.   Plus, it's the first release to support Concurrent Direct I/O, which gives you similar performance  for Oracle that Veritas Quick I/O provides.

Oracle 8.1.7 because it is the only one of the 8i releases  that allow async I/O against filesystems. Yep, no matter WHAT you do or what parameter you set on 8.1.5 and 8.1.6, Oracle will not use asyn I/O if it discovers that the datafiles are on a filesystem (it does an fstat() call to find out). Also, check out the _filesystemio_options parameter in 8.1.7 for more info on performance benefits of using Solaris 8 w/Oracle 8.1.7.

These are just some of the reasons that come to mind.

ramon_at_conexus.net (Ramon F Herrera) wrote in message news:<c9bc36ff.0110021406.5bad2320_at_posting.google.com>...
> We have a Sun SPARC Enterprise 450 which will be dedicated
> exclusively to run Oracle. I have the flexibility to decide
> what version of Solaris & Oracle will be installed.
>
> I would like to hear recommendations on the right mix
> of versions (Oracle 8i? 9i?, Solaris ??).
>
> My goal is to have a rock solid server.
>
> TIA,
>
> -Ramon F. Herrera
Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 21:18:55 CDT