At the last site I worked, we took our largest Oracle application and moved it to a Linux quest running SLES7. We installed Oracle-9i, it had just come out. The developers, users reported better response time and reports ran faster than on a SUN-280R. Performance was even better than the old VAX machine it was running on. We were running on an 9672-RB6 which is rating at about 400Megahertz. (1 IFL engine). Its one of those 'it depends'. The performance was better because it was more I/O intensive. Believe it or not, we ran this with 512Meg of memory as well. We did have to fake it on the install and set the memory up to 1Gig. Oracle required this much to load, even though we only had 800 meg of real at the time. It didn't page more than 20-25 per second during the install. I was snapping performance data with RTM and very seldom did I see the Linux guest use a significant amount of processor. Usually it would hit about 94 or 95 percent. This was because the developers were compiling some code. Users just pulling queries or reports, I saw 10 to 15 percent. I had put the database on a 30GIG LVM and the Oracle DBA said it was about 85 percent full. I'm trying to give you some idea(hope) that Oracle will work on z/VM under Linux. There were 8 escons channels to the raid box. I should say, I'm didn't do any of the Oracle work. I work with an excellent DBA.
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