Re: Linux and AMD

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:35:51 -0500, Larry Marshall wrote:

> Does anyone have experience using Oracle 9i on a Linux box with an AMD
> CPU? I was wondering if there were any issues related to this
> configuration. I was thinking of using SuSE 7.3.
>
> TIA - Larry

Works like a charm. Here's my configuration:

oracle> hinv
Total CPU's: 1
 AMD Athlon(tm) processor 1295 MHZ
 Cache Size: 256 KB
Main Memory Size: 511 MB

Host: ide0 Channel: hda
Vendor: MAXTOR Model: 6L040J2
Host: ide0 Channel: hdb
Vendor: 20X10 Model:
Host: ide1 Channel: hdc
Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: SV2044D

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW 20X10 Rev: H.DH

Keyboard Detected: 1
Serial Ports: 3
Parallel Ports: 0
Ethernet Controllers: eth0

Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 1a) Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 15)

USB Device: 1 Driver: hub
  USB UHCI-alt Root Hub
USB Device: 2 Driver: usb_mouse
  USB 3D Mouse
oracle> uname -a
Linux medo 2.4.16-4GB #15 Fri Mar 8 22:59:29 EST 2002 i686 unknown

 $ cat /etc/SuSE-release
SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386)
VERSION = 7.3racle> sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production on Sun Mar 10 16:46:07 2002

(c) Copyright 2001 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.0.1.2.0 - Production With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.0.1.2.0 - Production

SQL> I hope that you don't have 200MHZ K6 or something like that. That would be a problem.....

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Mladen Gogala