IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

 [ top-posting sucks, content reordered logically ]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:01:22 +0000 (GMT)
GeistTeufel <geistteufel at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org>
> À : Matt Emmerton <matt at gsicomp.on.ca>
> Cc : GeistTeufel <geistteufel at yahoo.fr>; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Envoyé le : Lundi, 23 Octobre 2006, 1h09mn 12s
> Objet : Re: IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1
> > 
> > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:01:20 -0400
> > "Matt Emmerton" <matt at gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production
> > > >
> > > >My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in
> > > >tgz, with a
> > > java installer ... so)
> > > >
> > > >Does any one can report a success on this product under freebsd ?
> > > >
> > > >It's as fast as on linux box ?
> > > 
> > > DB2 on Linux makes extensive use of Linux-isms which FreeBSD does
> > > not reproduce, mostly due to kernel differences but also due to
> > > issues in the linuxulator.  In the past, I've found differences
> > > with stat, memory allocation and AIO features which cripple DB2 to
> > > the point of not starting up or running properly.
> > > 
> > > If anyone wants work to resolve these issues, please contact me
> > > off-list.  I have access to the information that we'd need to get
> > > this working.
> > 
> > A lot of work is being done on our linux support, please see
> > http://wikitest.freebsd.org/linux-kernel
> > 
> > The guys on emulation@ might be interested / able to help you.
>
> Oh ok
> 
> I will send my request to emulation mailing list
> 
> I hope one day db2 will make a freebsd version ... so it could be
> excellent

Since we can run oracle .. we might have luck with db2 also :)

> I'm really interest of doing it work well on freebsd but with no bug,
> or nothing due to a mistake in emulation ... And by the way it's an
> emulation, I'm feared that performance could be worst than on pure
> linux desktop

It depends how linux-centric it is. Our emulation layer is usually light.


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