Oracle 10g on FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Michael Vince <mv at thebeastie.org> (from Fri, 27 Apr 2007  
17:55:04 +1000):

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Michael Vince <mv at thebeastie.org> (from Fri, 27 Apr 2007   
>> 13:11:07 +1000):
>>
>>> I have been contemplating buying a high end server and running a lot of
>>> stuff on it in jails including Oracle 10g under linux emu.
>>> I would be using Amd64 as the server would have 8gigs of ram or more.
>>
>> You will not be able to use this much of RAM in linux programs.   
>> Only 32bit linux programs run on amd64 so far.
>>
> The idea behind using Amd64 FreeBSD is just to be able to use a lot of
> ram for the other regular jails etc.
> The Linux Oracle would be the 32bit version, Oracle unlike MySQL
> appears to slice it self up into a lot of smaller sized processes a lot
> like Postgres.
> Do you think I would have any issues using it this way?

No, but linux-aio may be needed for Oracle (not available in -current yet).

Bye,
Alexander.

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