[lugm.org] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64

[ashvin saminathen]

nice that you managed to get back on track!

and i must say you are a very courageous guy!!! running 250k$ worth of
oracle ee, on 70k$ worth of integrity but using a free officially
unsupported OS!  this is a sign of utmost courage, or well in some cases
blatant stupidity (the boundary between the two is sometimes very blurry)!

anyway i hope that you don't come to face any additional issues further down
the way, for it does sound like a shame paying 22% yearly oracle support...
and well since its on an unsupported OS not getting any "oracle level"
support when your system goes hayward!




On 1 June 2011 08:44, Keshwarsingh Nadan <kn at debian.mu> wrote:

> Hah I managed to get back in track, I rebooted and enabled “physical drive
> write cache” though it warned me about the “disaster” that might occur if
> blade is not ups protected.
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> It seems that the box is functioning normally…
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> A quick answer: the motivation here is that I’m tired with hp support,
> according to hp patches are released and tested, but when you apply, it
> always breaks something & the crazy unlimited user licenses…
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> Oracle: we are running oracle ee which indeed is damn expensive, moved from
> oracle se that was on the old rx2620.
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> I even tried freebsd, unfortunately the fiber daughtercard was
> incompatible, else I would have carried on with it.
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> Oracle works fine on oracle though its unsupported, anyway I don’t need any
> “oracle level” support from oracle. Suse ent & red hat is a waste of money.
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> kn
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> *From:* ashvin.saminathen at gmail.com [mailto:ashvin.saminathen at gmail.com] *On
> Behalf Of *ashvin saminathen
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 01, 2011 3:25 AM
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> *To:* kn at debian.mu; LUGM Discuss Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [lugm.org] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64
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> just a quick question, not really relevant to your problem.but what
> motivated the shift from hp-ux to debian, particularly on integrity?
> I deployed some rx6600 a few years back, and i can't really see the logic
> in moving from HP-UX to linux on integrity... even from a financial point of
> view, since you are running on a 4 processor machine, you must be on oracle
> EE DB, pretty sure 16 processor oracle licenses and support are much more of
> a burden than the hp-ux licenses and support...
>
> coming back to your original question, i only worked with prod oracle on
> solaris or hp-ux, but i found the following article... maybe it can help you
> :
> http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Linux/LINUX_8.shtml#Configuring%20Oracle%20User%20Shell%20Limits
> also how's your swap configurations?
>
> p.s
> if you get fed up of dealing with HP and paying those crazy prices, gimme a
> call, I know of a great Japanese company who are very accommodating when it
> comes to servers :)
>
> On 31 May 2011 21:22, <kn at debian.mu> wrote:
>
> Yea the prompt appears immediately when oracle is not running! Increasing
> the wide limits helped a lot, to which value can I extend it? I've never
> dealt with these kind of issues before.
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ajay R Ramjatan <ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:17:10
> To: <kn at debian.mu>; LUGM Discuss Mailing List<discuss at lugm.org>
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64
>
> Silly question perhaps but you did narrow down the culprit being
> Oracle right? If Oracle is not running, then the prompt appears
> immediately?
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 18:03,  <kn at debian.mu> wrote:
> > Hello Systems Admins / Engineers,
> >
> > I need some advise;
> >
> > I've migrated from an old hp integrity rx2620 server running hp ux 11b)
> to an integrity bl870c i2 blade with the following specs:
> >
> > 4x itanium 9340
> > 704gb ram (44x 16gb ram sticks)
> > 4x300 gb @ 15k rpm sas (raid 1 with 2 online spares for os only)
> > OS: debian 6.0.2
> >
> > Oracle 11g r2 is being run on the server and databases stored on an hp
> eva 4400.
> >
> > The problem started when the blade celebrated its first day in
> production! The shell prompt appears 15mins after hitting the password!
> Tried to log in via ssh, it took approx one hour for the prompt to display!
> >
> > Oracle advised to dismount all databases and increase file descriptors, I
> adjusted the oracle user a soft & hard limit of 100000 / 9999999 in
> /etc/security/limits.conf. Appended fs.file-max = 9999999 in
> /etc/sysctl.conf , did a sysctl -p & rebooted.
> >
> > Prompts now appears after approx 8 mins on console, 35 mins via ssh..
> >
> > To which extent can I increase the wide limits?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > kn
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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