Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.mailgate.org!news-out.tin.it!news-in.tin.it!news3.tin.it.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Fabrizio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 10g RAC design options References: <42cd1186$0$7902$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net> <1120744146.773310@yasure> In-Reply-To: <1120744146.773310@yasure> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:57:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.56.65.216 X-Complaints-To: "Please send abuse reports to abuse@tin.it and technical notifications to newsmaster@tin.it" X-Trace: news3.tin.it 1120759071 82.56.65.216 (Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:57:51 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:57:51 MET DST Organization: TIN Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:246787 DA Morgan wrote: > Fabrizio wrote: > >> I like both: opteron and linux but unfortunately too many issues has >> been reported on RAC for x86-64. in partivular have a look at the >> suse-oracle mailing list archive. >> >> RAC for x86-64 doesn't seem ready for production and oracle is not >> providing a great support on that platform :( >> >> We are still waiting 10.1.0.4 patchset! > > > Your issues are SUSE: Not x86-64. I've seen few, if any, issues with RHEL. Maybe you are right and this is a SUSE issue. Normally I've seen the opposit: suse less buggy then redhat but for x86-64 things could be different. I have never tested redhat for AMD64 so I won't draw conclusions. Since Oracle certified the platform, after the usual sanity check, I would expect less bugs and reported issues. And the lack of pach and patchset porting for x86-64 are not encouraging. This is the reason I (and this is a personal opinion) do not consider RAC + x86-64 + Linux (suse in particul) ready for production. -- Fabrizio Magni fabrizio.magni@mycontinent.com replace mycontinent with europe