[rescue] bsd's

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

Is it a production Oracle install?  We had a devel database on a little box I
built out of leftover stuff in the server room, loaded redhat of some flavor
and 8i and it stays up for months at a time without a hiccup.  I left there
about a year ago and they called to get some help locating the box, they
wanted to put it on a ups, it had just gone down for the first time since I
left due to a power interupption.  It's a k6-300Mhz, 192Mb, and a bunch of
SCSI drives none bigger than a 2 Gb.

It sounds like your server is doing too much.  We actually have 9i running on
a laptop with redhat 7.2 and no issues.

I think the install process is more difficult than it needs to be on NetBSD,
and I do like using FreeBSD on i386, but Linux will always have a place until
Oracle starts running on BSD, and SMP matures.

Seth Dunehew
Oracle DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: Big Endian [mailto:bigendian at mac.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:20 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] bsd's


>On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:14:12AM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
>
>>  I've taken to using freebsd in place of linux on x86 hardware because
>>  it just works better for me (faster, more stable, doesn't need to
>>  fsck after its been up for 30 days, list goes on).  Freebsd supports
>
>What's that about fsck?  I rarely fsck my fileserver in and 60day interval.
>Not sure what the average uptime is, but boots are the only time fsck is
run.
>It was 70 some days when I recently took it down to pull some ununsed
hardware
>from it.

We have a server that gets lots of hardware changes  to use various
printers, About once a month it goes down, and it has to fsck some 60
gigs *EVERY FUCKING TIME* because ext2fs sucks and that box needs a
2.2 kernel for oracle 8i.  Its just a pain in the ass and makes
things like that feel not quite ready for prime time.

daniel
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