Next topic. I need to run many, many copies of Oracle 10g under SLES9 under z/VM 5.1.
But I need a small memory footprint. Now Oracle suggests a 1 GB memory and 1-2 GB for swap (vdisk in my case). I've been able to install with 512 MB and 1 GB vdisk. But that still ends up taking the 512 MBs, all the time. Even idling and I drive up paging to 2,000 per second, it gets trimmed by less than 5%. I can run SLES9 in 64 MB, without any swapping. ORACLE's OEM, seem to take about 50 MB, just to startup. Then the Oracle database takes the rest of the virtual storage. I've been able to get the Oracle SGA down to 76 MBs which gets my virtual size of Linux down to 320 MBs. Any smaller SGA, seems have Oracle failing just after startup. I don't mind using, perhaps abusing vdisk. I would rather have most of the entire machine paged out when it isn't in use. I might end up having the machines automatically brought down after an hour of unuse, but I would rather not have to write something myself. Of course production machines will be sized for production workloads. What I need is a bunch of departmental development/testing machines, most of them will not be used on any particular day. So, who has the smallest Oracle memory footprint for a full blown Oracle database and how did you get it? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
