Re: 10g RAC design options

From: Fabrizio <fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:57:51 GMT
Message-ID: <z2eze.45574$h5.1925748@news3.tin.it>

DA Morgan wrote:

> Fabrizio wrote:
> 

>> I like both: opteron and linux but unfortunately too many issues has
>> been reported on RAC for x86-64. in partivular have a look at the
>> suse-oracle mailing list archive.
>>
>> RAC for x86-64 doesn't seem ready for production and oracle is not
>> providing a great support on that platform :(
>>
>> We are still waiting 10.1.0.4 patchset!

> 
> 
> Your issues are SUSE: Not x86-64. I've seen few, if any, issues with RHEL.

Maybe you are right and this is a SUSE issue. Normally I've seen the opposit: suse less buggy then redhat but for x86-64 things could be different.

I have never tested redhat for AMD64 so I won't draw conclusions.

Since Oracle certified the platform, after the usual sanity check, I would expect less bugs and reported issues.

And the lack of pach and patchset porting for x86-64 are not encouraging.

This is the reason I (and this is a personal opinion) do not consider RAC + x86-64 + Linux (suse in particul) ready for production.

-- 
Fabrizio Magni

fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com

replace mycontinent with europe

Received on Thu Jul 07 2005 - 12:57:51 CDT