Re: minimalistic oracle installation?

On Apr 3, 12:34 pm, m..._at_familysquires.net (Michael L. Squires) wrote:
> In article <46118880$0$17313$c3e8..._at_news.astraweb.com>,
> Dirk Diggler <dirkdigg..._at_nowhere.org> wrote:
>
> >hello,
>
> >my computer is an old fashioned dual PIII 450MHz, and I was wondering if
> >it is possible to install minimalistic oracle instance which main
> >purpose would be to serve as dba learning environment.
>
> I installed 10g r1 on a PIII/600 with 512MB of RAM using WhiteBox LINUX and the instructions from puschitz.com (sp?). Everything I tried worked, but very
> slowly. It was very easy to cause problems by assuming that the system had
> stopped responding when it was just slow.

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> Mike Squires

I agree 100%. I built a two node RAC on two P433 Dell Optiplex' with 512MB RAM and a two GB swap file. My shared storage was iscsi on freenas on another 256MB RAM 400mhz Dell over a 100MB NIC. I think I got 600ms average single block read times...LOL!

I could break that thing if I sneezed within ten feet of it. However, because of that, I could also tell you where every possible error was in any log under $ORA_CRS_HOME, /var/log/messages, you name it, *and* what caused it. By the time we built a cluster at "work" on "real" hardware, it was a walk in the park.

Regards,

Steve Received on Tue Apr 03 2007 - 11:50:05 CDT