Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone1.gnilink.net!ngpeer.news.aol.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!router1.news.adelphia.net!news1.news.adelphia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Scott Mattes" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc References: Subject: Re: Oracle, Linux and a Mainframe Lines: 26 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:29:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.65.40.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@adelphia.net X-Trace: news1.news.adelphia.net 1039724966 68.65.40.201 (Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:29:26 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:29:26 EST Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:90488 X-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:29:02 MST (news.easynews.com) What is the VM setup like? Are you VM under VM for instance. What other OS are sharing the box? What size is the box? VM has changed much since I was a sysprog, but those are the basic things to start looking at. "Paul Watts" wrote in message news:atafm9$cpv$1@sparta.btinternet.com... > Hi, > > Can any one help? We've just installed Oracle 9i on SUSE Linux running on a > Mainframe (VM). The problem is Oracle runs slower than a corpse! I've > checked the CPU, I/O and buffer cache and they seem to be fine (CPU approx > 30-60%, I/O: very little and library and buffer caches over 94% hit rates). > > Can any tell me why the instance is running so slow? > > Thanks. > Paul > >