Re: Installing Oracle 9i on Linux

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:53:19 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns9315503F4808Epingottpingottbah@216.166.71.233>

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in news:3E3B6E82.4BF34704 @exesolutions.com:

>> I had _four_ Oracle Instances running on a Linux box with 192MB of
>> memory:  PII @ 266MHz.  Obviously they were not speed demons but they
>> were adequate for the development and the subsequent testing that
>> needed to be done.

>
> He didn't ask whether it could be installed. He asked "so it has at
> least a decent speed" and which I think all would agree that isn't
> going to happen.

'decent' is subjective. :) I was able to do my port (see http://www.hpdbe.com/products/shim.html) and run regressions on the app. The final testing involved running across all four instances. It wasn't all that bad.

> But I'm not sure I'm buying four instances of 9i in 192MB on a
> PII-266.8i would be a squeeze. 9i? You've got to be kidding.

Correction, I ran four x 8i with no problems. The databases were pretty small so my assumption is that Linux only paged what was necessary of the shared memory segment to allow all four to run. I would assume the same with 9i. I guess I could try four of 9i but I'm heading out on vacation in a bit. :)

But this is one of those situations where I think it's easier for the person to simply set them up and run them. It's not all that hard to setup four instances.

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Sat Feb 01 2003 - 08:53:19 CST