RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i

["Darnell Gadberry" <darnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

You will be INCREDIBLY disappointed with the performance of Oracle 8i on the
RaQ. We use 8i extensively (and lots of RaQs as utility machines) in our
operation and have learned a few very important things about configuring a
usable Oracle installation:

	1) RAID, RAID, RAID - You can never have enough active spindles (disks)
	   for an 8i installation. The standard Oracle file layout is optimally
	   divided across 7 drives to eliminate contention for resources. We use
	   26 drives on our primary production 8i database. The data tables,
indices,
	   Rollback segments, logs and control files should all be stored on
separate,
	   mirrored drives.

	2) 8i is notoriously difficult to install and even more difficult to
	   administer properly. You really do need someone with Oracle DBA skills.
	   If you really intend to have a 24X7, high-performance operation, reading
	   one of the "Master Oracle in 21 days" books is simply not sufficient
	   preparation for the job.

	3) Your RaQ probably does not have enough RAM or CPU power or Disk Drives
to
	   do justice to a moderately sized Oracle Database. 8i really wants to be
	   installed on "big iron."

I recommend that you put your Oracle database on a Sun, Alpha or
Multi-processor Linux PC (2-4 CPUs) with hardware RAID (1+0 config -
mirrored stripe sets) and lots
of RAM (768MB - 2GB). You will save yourself an enormous amount of pain in
the long
run.

We use MySQL as a staging database on many of our machines. It works REALLY
well for
small applications that do not require stored procedures, transactions or
DRI.

Good luck!

- darnell

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-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric DECHELLE
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:24 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i


Hi,

Has anyone tried/succeeded in installing Oracle 8i for Linux on a RAQ3i
server ???
The goal is to have a Oracle db on the RAQ then install a small replication
with
another Oracle db on the main site so my users will not have to access the
RAQ,
they will access a local db.
If someone has another idea with other products, just tell me

Thanks in advance
Eric DECHELLE
http://www.mgeups.com

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