Re: Linux Vs Solari

We called it slowaris for fun when we observed the faster disk i/o on various linux versions, including rh. I understand that solaris 10 fixed alot of these disk i/o issues, but we have not gone there to find out yet. Anyone? Anyone? (Save Ferris!)

CPU count may be an issue for you, I don't think linux handles more than 4 currently, however they are faster and cheaper:

http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco/Benchmarks/spec.shtml

 Rank    Machine         SPECfp          SPECint        Test    Relative Values (%)
                                                        Date    SPECfp  SPECint
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
127      Dell
         PowerEdge 2650/3.2 GHz
         P4Xeon,2ML3     1347.0          1420.0         Feb-04    64%     108%

212      Sun Fire
  V880 / 1200 MHz Cu     1082.0          700.0          Sep-03    51%      53%

255      Sun Fire
   V880 / 1050 MHz Cu    982.0          626.0           Jun-03    47%      48%

332      Sun Fire
  V880 / 900 MHz Cu      697.0          507.0           May-02    33%      39%

464      Sun Fire
  V880 / 750 MHz         378.0          390.0           Nov-01    18%      30%

While I did not run specint, we observed similar results with our apps.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:03:58AM -0700, raja rao wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Right now we are on Solaris 8 and 9 (some) and oracle 9i. Some of the database are RAC.
>
> Management is planning to Move to Linux (Redhat).
> (we have almost around 100 oracle databases from siziging 2 GB to 200 GB, some of them
> are oracle APPS)
>
> Can someone throw any suggestions
>
> has anybody moved from Solaris to Linux and see any advantages / issues. ?
>
> Would appreciate if any specific URLs avaialble on these topics.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Raj
>
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