Re: Responsiveness of Server at high CPU load

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:27:40 +0100, Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote:

>"Jarmo" <jarmo_at_jarmo.com> wrote:
>
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>>1. your system is not 'big' enough for Oracle; even the tiniest database
>>requires inordinate amounts of RAM and diskspace
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>It is big enough. Oracle is no challenge.
>
>>2. you haven't set sem, shmmax, shmmni and so on to big enough numbers
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>Of course I did, big enough.
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>>3. there is a bug in Oracle on your version of Linux
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>I hope not.
>
>>4. there is a significant design flaw in Oracle that allows it to be
>>saturated by a single, errant query
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>That worries me a lot.
>
>Bye
>Rick Denoire

Design flaws are generically called 'developer'

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA