[rescue] bsd's

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Apr 17 11:41:16 CDT 2002


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:34:01AM -0500, Dunehew, Seth wrote:
> 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.

What's wrong with Oracle on Solaris?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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