Oracle 10g on FreeBSD

[Roman Divacky]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:11:07PM +1000, Michael Vince wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 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.
> The idea would be that the Oracle 10g would just be a slave server to a 
> dedicated 10g server on linux and would act as a emergency backup to the 
> real server and consolidate some rack space at the same time, and 
> hopefully could do some lighter amount work such as read queries.
> 
> Anyone gone down this path with 10g? I was thinking that since the linux 
> emulation has been getting a fair bit of work lately it would be good to 
> try and really utilize it.

I think you need linux_aio which is only in p4 and awaits final review or something.
you also need correct TLS (present in cvs) and corrrect futexes (present in my head,
will appear in cvs in a few days)

with this I think you should be able to test the oracle :)

roman