Re: LINUX Kernel Parameters

From: Paul Brewer <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:44:08 +0100
Message-ID: <3eef9aed_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>

"Dave Hau" <davehau-no-spam-123_at_no-spam.netscape.net> wrote in message news:fDyHa.652$km4.61670622_at_newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> You can *install* more than 1 instance on the same machine, but at any
given
> time, you're only going to *run* one instance I assume. Why would you
ever
> want to run more than 1 instance of Oracle on the same machine?
>

Sorry, I don't follow this at all.

We have various (hp and Sun) unix boxes; some of which (pre-production) run up to 30 instances simultaneously, and some (even production) running 3 or 4 different versions of Oracle server. Admittedly, this is not an ideal arrangement, but it does work.
If we wanted one server per instance, I doubt we'd even have the floor space. I've also lost count of the instances we have to monitor; but monitor them we do. And we do the development DBA stuff as well...

Regards,
Paul Received on Tue Jun 17 2003 - 17:44:08 CDT