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Oracle7 under OS/2 v2.11

From: Richard Ashton <richard_at_corixia.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1995/05/07
Message-ID: <799864478snz_at_corixia.demon.co.uk>#1/1 






Please forgive me if this is a FAQ. I have been lurking for a week and
I have seen very few posts about Oracle7 running under the OS/2
operating system.



I conclude that few people are using it or it is a dog or perfect :)



I am an OS/2 comms specialist and know very little about Oracle, a
situation that is changing :(



We are running 7.0.16.1 with 7.0.16.3 imminent. The box is a 100Mhz
Pentium, 64Mb RAM 256k L2 Cache ( I have already said this is silly)
and a mirrored 1GB drive. IBM LAN Server HPFS386 is installed.



The box is running a lot of tasks, including Oracle but it is the
relationship between Oracle 7 and OS/2(HPFS386) about which I could
use some insight.



It seems to me, as an illiterate in these matters, that Oracle and OS/2
were made to be kept far away from each other. As soon as an Oracle
task starts the number of dispatchs made by the operating system goes
through the roof. I am seeing 100% CPU Utilization 30% to 40% of this
seems to be in the OS/2 kernel.



Does anybody use oracle7 on OS/2 (with Advanced LAN Server) ?



Is it my imagination or is Oracle7 severly suboptimal under OS/2



Is Oracle7 for OS/2 a real port or a quick hack? It certainly does not
look as if it is multi threaded.



Any assistance or guidance, even of the "poor sod" variety would be
very welcome.




Regards   {} {}   Richard   {} {}

--
{R}  richard_at_corixia.demon.co.uk                      TEAM OS/2
This opinion belongs to the Company and is probably not my own.


Received on Sun May 07 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST












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