Re: Oracle 9i on linux?

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<4184ca4e$0$32563$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "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 Received on Sun Oct 31 2004 - 23:56:53 CST