[lugm.org] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64

Wed Jun 1 09:41:25 UTC 2011

> Aha there is nothing wrong is testing! I'm at least proud for having the
> opportunity to test oracle ee on debian! The issue I had was hardware
> related (write cache on physical disks), the blade is performing really
> well
> , and I highly believe that redhat & suse ent should be dropped.!
>
>
>
> Your question regarding centos: I could have used centos, oracle runs
> great
> on centos, you need to install X in order to run the oracle installer,
> installing X on centos means a stupid service called "Bluetooth" will be
> installed along  with loads of bloatwares else it will fail the
> dependencies... Removing these services afterwards would cause issues..
>
X != GNOME or KDE
CentOS = Red Hat Linux minus branding

>
>
> Anyways I'm backup by 3 more blades running hp ux 11 on three different
> chassis, if ever anything goes wrong with the actual debian blade.
>
>
>
> The databases are physically located on a storage, even if the debian
> blade
> is down for whatsoever reason, I don't really care.. I should back to
> business within minutes if you understand what I'm trying to mean.
> Mounting
> oracle dbs isn't difficult at all.
>
>
>
> J
>
>
>
> From: discuss-bounces at lugm.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lugm.org] On Behalf
> Of ashvin saminathen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:33 PM
> To: LUGM Discuss Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64
>
>
>
> 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!
>
>
>
>
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> 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.
>
>
>
> It seems that the box is functioning normally.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Oracle: we are running oracle ee which indeed is damn expensive, moved
> from
> oracle se that was on the old rx2620.
>
>
>
> I even tried freebsd, unfortunately the fiber daughtercard was
> incompatible,
> else I would have carried on with it.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> kn
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> To: kn at debian.mu; LUGM Discuss Mailing List
>
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64
>
>
>
> 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#Config
> uring%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 BlackBerryR 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 BlackBerryR wireless device
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