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Pete Sharman wrote in message ...
>
>them to a NetApp storage device. The laptops were whatever OracleWorld
>Copenhagen attendees had with them, so they were from a variety of hardware
>vendors. From memory, it was RedHat 7.2 and 9.2 of the database. Getting
it to
>even work it just amazing!
>
Oracle Training in Denmark let us have a go in one of their
training rooms after the show was over - so we have a set
of identical machines, and we still met the same problem.
But as you say, it's pretty amazing that James got it
working at all - booting off a CD, setting up an NFS
device as the swap (one of the problems, we think,
was related to insufficient memory), and running the
cluster heartbeat off hardware ! My guess on the point
of failure was that we didn't have enough network capacity
to bring in the 11th node and keep the original 10 aware of
each other at the same time - we weren't using state of
the art network kit.
> Funniest thing about it was the photo I
got sent
>showing all these laptops open, but on their sides, in the cluster!
>
Now what was the quote of the conference from Larry -
".... runs nothing; it only runs benchmarks'".
Stacking the laptops on their sides was the best way
of keeping the users off the system !
Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 02:21:12 CDT
