Re: Oracle certification on linux

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:59:57 -0500
Message-ID: <20040211205957.GA8282@mladen.wangtrading.com>

On 02/11/2004 03:24:09 PM, Jacques Kilchoer wrote: :
>
> For those of you running Linux in production - do you stick with an =
> Oracle certified release?

Yes. No supported release => no support. If I get ORA-600 (which, of course, never happens) I need to have someone to ask for help.

> I'm not talking about the cowboys that
> install =
> on a laptop for testing purposes and compile Linux from scratch with
> the =
> right tweaks to avoid ORA-600 errors.

You'll be interested to learn that I achieved a good performance on both cooker and RH-9 with JFS downloaded directly from IBM and compiled directly into the kernel. JFS supports "setall" value in the "filesystemio_options" parameter and 1.1.4 has had some performance optimizations. That is, I suppose, what you call "cowboy stuff". I love cooker for always being on the bleeding edge.

>
> My guess would be that most Oracle installations on Linux are either
> =
> RedHat or SuSe - is there a survey out there that shows which Linux =
> versions are most popular for Oracle databases?

Cooker. Definitely Cooker. It's my personal favorite. I like sticking with known stuff, unlike some fans of the Gentoo distribution.

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Re: Oracle certification on linux - it's a madhouse!