"Ujang M Zainudin" <Ujang_mz_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
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>> "harry" <spammemothers_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:Qo2hd.3057$up1.230_at_text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> > Sorry for being a bit thick but I'm a basically a complete newbie to
>> > Linux
>> > &
>> > need to get up & running pretty quickly.
>> >
>> > I been asked to setup a Linux box on a PC running Oracle 9i & Weblogic
>> > 8.1.
>> >
>> > The version of Linux I install is not that important as long as I can
>> > get
>> > the 2 app's above working - that's where I've hit a brick wall.
>> >
>> > I thought I'd find a Oracle & WL version say for FreeBSB or Redhat & go
>> > with
>> > that Linux version ah ha but -
>> >
>> > it looks like from Oracle's site I should download "Oracle9i Database
>> > Release 2 Enterprise/Standard Edition for Linux
>> > New (26-Mar-04)"
>> >
>> > but which version of linux is it for, freebsd, redhat etc...?
>>
>>
>> FreeBSD is not Linux. It's another Unix clone, to put it at its simplest.
>> And not one Oracle supports (or much of the rest of the world, to be
>> blunt).
>>
>> Redhat is merely a distribution of Linux. There are lots of others, such
>> as
>> SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and Lord knows what else.
>>
>> Oracle only certifies its products for one or two Linux distributions
>> (because otherwise it would be there till Christmas!). Specifically, it
>> only
>> certifies itself against Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1, RH Advanced Server
>> 3
>> and (lately) SuSE Enterprise Server 9. Something called United Linux 1
>> got a
>> mention once upon a time, but it fell off the face of the Earth shortly
>> afterwards, so we don't tend to worry about that one.
>>
>> > Also from BEA's site -
>> > http://commerce.bea.com/showproduct.jsp?family=WLP&major=8.1&minor=3 in
>> > the
>> > drop down box, the only linux offering appears to be "Red Hat
>> > Enterprise
>> > Linux (2.1, 3.0, Pentium) - so do I have to have "Red Hat Enterprise
>> > Linux"?
>>
>> So BEA seem also to certify themselves against Red Hat 2.1, and 3...
>> which
>> kind of means if you want a certified platform for both, thems about your
>> only choices. Least common denominators and all that jazz.
>>
>> Beyond that much, I'm not sure what exactly you're asking. If you want to
>> know how to install Oracle 9i on Red Hat Advanced Server 3, there's
>> always
>> my article at www.dizwell.com (end of shameless plug). Thhat article uses
>> White Box Linux, which is an exact clone of RHAS3, but which is freely
>> available and updatable. I can't tell whether you are just experimenting
>> at
>> this stage on a spare PC, so White Box might be a go, or whether this is
>> going straight into supported production -in which case, you will want
>> the
>> "proper" Red Hat product, at a cost of several thousand dollars. Your
>> choice: but whatever you do in White Box, you end up doing in RHAS3,
>> because
>> fundamentally they are exactly the same distro.
>>
>> Regards
>> HJR
>>
>>
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > thanks in advance
>> >
>> > harry
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
> I have been running Oracle9i on a RedHat AS 2.1 for 6 months now and
> before
> that on RedHat 8. The problem is, when the db hit certain number of
> active threads (in my case 53 for the RH8 and later 63 with RHAS2.1)
> it hangs.
> No more users can login. The strange thing is that there's no error
> messages
> whatsoever in the alert log.
> I thought it was the 'processes' parameter at first.
> But that wasn't it! I am still having that problem. I have to reset my
> db every other day because of it. Just thought I share my experience
> with you Harry.
>
> And Howard, how many active processes were you running on the oracle
> db?
> I would like to take a peak at your White Box .
>
> -Ujang
You can do so, not a problem: just visit www.dizwell.com, and visit the
Virtual Oracle papers. Describes how to do White Box in VMware. And if you
follow all the steps there, you will have *exactly* the testing/research
platform I use daily.
That aside, I've run over two hundred active processes (specifically, 267)
on a "real", physical RHAS3 installation at home. Which is probably peanuts,
but it sticks in my mind because I happened to be doing a count(*) from
v$process at the time.
I think we would have heard by now if there really was a 63 process limit,
don't you?
Did you configure your kernel parameters correctly?
Regards
HJR
Received on Mon Nov 01 2004 - 01:17:20 CST
