Re: Experience with 10.1.0.3 or AMD 64-bit?

Hi, Natalka, I'm in the same situation as you.

Bear in mind: running Oracle 10G under Amd-64 is very different under IA-32. The Library is totally different, it uses something like /usr/libx_64 instead of /usr/lib. Back Feb 2004 I bought AMD Opteron 246(2GHz) I tried to load it with Redhat Enterprise 3 for AMD-64(the OS had lots of glitchs, much slower than RHEL 3 for IA-32), but the real problem is installing Oracle 9.2.0.4. every links failed, I got Oracle support to come without solving any problem!!! Finally I reloaded the system with RHEL 3 for IA-32 and everything works till today, but obviously any 64-bit insrtuction sets in Opteron is a waste( reduce Opteron to intel Xeon).

I have only one Opteron machine here and it runs a production system( described above), it's not easy for me to shutdown the system and install another OS ( REHL for X-64) to test out if Oracle 10g X-64 will work( Oracle 10G IA-32 under Linux definitely works, but that's irrelvant, other wise why Oracle has 2 versions: 10G IA-32 and 10g x-64?, same with oracle 9iR2). we have 8G Ram on Opteron machine, 64-bit Oracle is better.......

From last year's work, I heard other People got Oracle 9iR2 X-64 working under Suse Enterprise Linux 8 (for X-64), I didn't try Suse OS after I got burned for Rhel 3 X-64...

Please drop me an email or write here your results for Oracle 10.1.0.3 X-64 on Rhel Enterprise 3 Release 3 x-64 Linux, Thanks.

sean chang

"Natalka Rosalia Maria Roshak" <nroshak_at_REMOVETHIS.fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message news:cs0vrt$947$1_at_us23.unix.fas.harvard.edu...
> Anyone have experience with the Oracle 10.1.0.3 patchset?
>
> I'm migrating us to Linux (RedHat ASE 3 on AMD 64-bit) from Windows
> 32-bit, and considering moving to 10g at the same time. 10.1.0.3 is the
> only 10g available for the new platform, and since it's brand new, there
> isn't much out there yet with respect to critical bugs.
>
> If you're running Oracle on Linux on a 64-bit AMD Opteron platform, or
> if you're running Oracle 10.1.0.3 on any platform, I'd really like to
> hear from you. Followups will be much appreciated, as will any email to
> nroshak_at_REMOVETHIS.fas.harvard.edu (remove the anti-spam clause).
>
> Thanks, all --
>
> Natalka Roshak, OCP
> Sr. Database Administrator
> FAS Financial Office, Administrative Computing Group
> Harvard University
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 12:31:33 CST