Re: starting oracle with solaris project

In article <1184452668.691408_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
>hume.spamfilter_at_bofh.ca wrote:
>> In comp.unix.solaris DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>> Thanks ... helpful ... and now that I know it is part of Containers
>>> it takes me back to my original concern which was Oracle support and
>>
>> They are related, but not bound together. You do not need to touch any
>> form of container (zones) in order to make use of project resource
>> controls. Running Oracle inside a zone is NOT the same as running it
>> inside a project!
>>
>> There are Metalink documents describing how to set up Oracle 10g using
>> /etc/project for more dynamic shared memory limits. This avoids needing
>> to set /etc/system and the foolishness of reboots between changes.
>
>Simple question:
>
>Has anyone that is a production DBA ever seen anything official from
>Oracle metalink that they will fully support this Solaris capability.
>I looked and found nothing. If Oracle supports it UNTIL you open an
>SR then it is not truly supported.

yes, i've definitely opened SRs with .... well, probably not the db but with the app server running in solaris zones. the ___workflow___ stuff is a bucket of worms, but it was an identical bucket of worms under a conventional solaris 9 machine. we ultimately ditched it.

there's some certification matrix out there which tells you what part of oracle works with zones and so on. last i looked it was 10.1 of the db, not 10.2. that was a while ago. app server i don't recall offhand.

FWIW. j.

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