Re: Oracle8 on Linux ok?

George Dau <gedau_at_isa.mim.com.au> wrote in message news:37136a1d.71500281_at_158.54.6.109...
> "Søren Klintrup" <bigchief_at_aub.dk> wrote:
>
> ]I've seen many Linux systems crash ... more than NT in fact ... - not
that
> ]is says anything .. just my personal experience ...
>
> I've seen many systems of all types crash, from my lawnmower to a Unisys
> 2200/400 mainframe. I'd be very interested in details of the above though.
How
> long do your NT boxes stay up for? (The ones with Oracle on them).

I am a newly started Oracle DBA, so my Oracle box havn't been up for more than 20 days in a row, but then again .. it never crashed, i rebooted the machine for an upgrade of a driver..

But I have had an NT Server wich has been running for 1½ year without ever being rebooted nor crashed wich i may say is quite impressive .. - the final steps of the box was to tear it apart for an upgrade, and in the same "step" reinstalling the OS (for the SMP functionality), it CAN be done with uptosmp, but i didn't want to try .. :)

I've been Working with several NT Servers, I havn't seen NT Crash unless it was faulty hardware, and if it is faulty hardware, well ... it's not NT to blame ..

I'm not the type of person who will only use one OS and then defend it by all means ... I think that most of the Anti-MS Hype out there is based on Windows 9x, wich ain't a bussiness OS, and people tend to try to compare it with linux and others ... 9x and NT is two different worlds the only thing alike is the look and feel of the GUI (roughly speaking) ...

I've been using FreeBSD for the past year, and is quite impressed with the stability, performance and easy of use of FreeBSD, not as a Desktop OS, but as a Server OS .. no X, no fancy stuff ... just a hardcore rockstable OS ... I have actually never had a FreeBSD box that crashed (ok .. one .. but it ran on a faulty Cyrix processor (ain't they all :) .. crashed after 5 minutes of running time .. replaced the CPU .. and it started running stable .. :)

I started on using Linux 1½ year ago, but wasn't impressed, I don't want to go looking for kernel-patch after kernel-patch after kernel-patch to make simple tings work... it might be that it's only in this first years of the OS that it's gonna be like that ... but why settle for less, don't get me wrong .. RedHAT is the easiest of the FreeBSD/Linux to install and setup, but I'm not looking for another Windows ... already got that ..

That should be all from here

Søren Klintrup
Network Administrator
Post Danmark Mailhouse Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 03:18:34 CDT