<div>Its only about support because [corporates needs 'support']. :) or have to have someone to be blamed in case trouble happens :D. <br><br>which is why it isn't wise to have a non supported OS on it when trouble happens and you are the sysad :D. But if you can deal with that .. i guess :p using non supported os on it would be a good thing to find bugs :p.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk">gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<td valign="top">Oracle is probably a C app. It should work 90% on any<br>POSIX system.<br><br>Also, it makes commercial sense for oracle to work on Linux. If you <br>have a client on Linux, with mysql and other services. It's going to <br>
be more difficult to sell oracle, if it works only on Solaris.<br><br>However, I doubt they test it on anything but RedHat or SuSe. <br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 1/6/11, Keshwarsingh Nadan <i><<a href="mailto:kn@debian.mu" target="_blank">kn@debian.mu</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.! </span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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..</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lugm.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@lugm.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lugm.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@lugm.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>ashvin saminathen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> LUGM Discuss Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [<a href="http://lugm.org/" target="_blank">lugm.org</a>] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64</span></p></div>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">nice that you managed to get back on track!<br><br>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)!<br>
<br>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!<br>
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<p>On 1 June 2011 08:44, Keshwarsingh Nadan <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=kn@debian.mu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kn@debian.mu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It seems that the box is functioning normally…</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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…</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Oracle: we are running oracle ee which indeed is damn expensive, moved from oracle se that was on the old rx2620. </span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I even tried freebsd, unfortunately the fiber daughtercard was incompatible, else I would have carried on with it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">kn</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a href="http://mc/compose?to=ashvin.saminathen@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ashvin.saminathen@gmail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="http://mc/compose?to=ashvin.saminathen@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ashvin.saminathen@gmail.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>ashvin saminathen<br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">just a quick question, not really relevant to your problem.but what motivated the shift from hp-ux to debian, particularly on integrity?<br>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...<br>
<br>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 : <a href="http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Linux/LINUX_8.shtml#Configuring%20Oracle%20User%20Shell%20Limits" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Linux/LINUX_8.shtml#Configuring%20Oracle%20User%20Shell%20Limits</a><br>
also how's your swap configurations?<br><br>p.s<br>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 :)</p>
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<p>On 31 May 2011 21:22, <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=kn@debian.mu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kn@debian.mu</a>> wrote:</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Ajay R Ramjatan <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:17:10<br>To: <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=kn@debian.mu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kn@debian.mu</a>>; LUGM Discuss Mailing List<<a href="http://mc/compose?to=discuss@lugm.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discuss@lugm.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [<a href="http://lugm.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lugm.org</a>] Oracle db on debian 6 ia64<br><br>Silly question perhaps but you did narrow down the culprit being<br>Oracle right? If Oracle is not running, then the prompt appears<br>
immediately?<br><br>On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 18:03, <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=kn@debian.mu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kn@debian.mu</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello Systems Admins / Engineers,<br>><br>> I need some advise;<br>
><br>> I've migrated from an old hp integrity rx2620 server running hp ux 11b) to an integrity bl870c i2 blade with the following specs:<br>><br>> 4x itanium 9340<br>> 704gb ram (44x 16gb ram sticks)<br>
> 4x300 gb @ 15k rpm sas (raid 1 with 2 online spares for os only)<br>> OS: debian 6.0.2<br>><br>> Oracle 11g r2 is being run on the server and databases stored on an hp eva 4400.<br>><br>> 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!<br>
><br>> 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.<br>
><br>> Prompts now appears after approx 8 mins on console, 35 mins via ssh..<br>><br>> To which extent can I increase the wide limits?<br>><br>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br>><br>> kn<br>
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