Striping in LVM makes a fantastically huge difference. The database import time was
reduced by 50% when striped across 10 3390-9 vs non-striped. We have 2 z/900 engines
dedicated to our VM lpar. the best performance i've seen for oracle is defining 4
virtual cpu's but your mileage may vary on that. the dba's had a problem running a
shutdown script brought over from HPUX, but adding a "#!/bin/sh" to it solved that
problem. I haven't been following this list much lately so I don't know what else has
been discussed, but those were some of the things we've encountered.
>
> From: "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/01/03 Fri AM 10:43:49 EST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Oracle 9i
>
> Chris,
>
> It would be nice if you would talk about just what those environmental
> problems had been. More than likely someone else will be in the same
> situation.
>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Little [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Oracle 9i
>
>
> We just moved our first production database from HP-UX to linux/390 last
> monday. So far we haven't found ANY showstopper issues. Mostly it has been
> just a few environmental gotchas. Our "big" database has a scheduled move
> date for the middle of march. It's about 70gig and has around 600-700 users
> on it daily.
> >
> > From: Jim Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2003/01/02 Thu PM 12:17:20 EST
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Oracle 9i
> >
> > Our developers and database people find Oracle9i on Linux/390 to be
> > identical to Oracle9i
> > on any other Unix or Linux box. In fact, Oracle9i documentation
> > specific to Linux/390 is
> > only the release notes, everything else is common.
> >
> > Performance depends on disk and processor sizes and speeds regardless of
> > platform,
> > but we have not noticed any issues on our MP3000 boxes. You may need a
> > bigger box
> > for large production workloads (we are a development shop).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Jim
> >
> > Yagiz Erkan wrote:
> >
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >For one of our projects, we are planning to use Oracle 9i on Linux/390. I
> would
> > >really appreciate if you could share with me your experiences on that?
> Any
> > >negative or positive comments? Any performance problems?
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance for your time,
> > >Happy New Year!
> > >
> > > -> Yagiz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
