Re: Oracle on Windows Vs. Linux

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:20:02 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380605191120q493bb971w711d6978a3f161c8@mail.gmail.com>

Have you set noatime for the oracle filesystems?

It is I believe a standard practice on linux/unix, though I'm not sure of any solid measurements of performance difference.

see
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/webcolumns/2002/techarticles/scalzo_linux01.html for example.

(google for it, the supplied URL was the first I found that mentioned it for Oracle)

Jared

On 5/18/06, Freeman, Donald <dofreeman_at_state.pa.us> wrote:
>
> We set up a side by side comparison to test our Oracle DB application on
> Windows 2003 32 Bit vs. Red Hat Linux. We set up two virtual partitions
> and alternately stopped one and tested the other. We have been reading
> different benchmark tests and came to believe that we would see a 30% to 40%
> performance advantage using linux. We used Load Runner and tested three
> program functions with 30-60-90 users. Windows performed about 10%
> better. Does anybody have any advice or observations on this? Any
> configuration advice?
>
> Don Freeman
> Database Administrator 1
> Bureau of Information Technology
> Pennsylvania Department of Health
> (717) 703-5782
>

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