On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:47:49PM +1200, Mike Tierney wrote: > Hi > > Is anyone currently running Oracle 10g in a Vserver as a Production system? > > It seems to run just fine inside a Linux 2.6.11.5-vs.1.9.5 (SMP) Vserver. > That was using the latest alpha utils with a SuSE SLES 9 guest (basically a > copy of the root file system - minimal SLES 9 install of a mere 260-odd > RPM's). > > The only issues I had were: > 1) Adding RUNLEVEL="$1" into the start of /vserver/dbserver/etc/rc.d so the > SLES 9 guest would start!
this is probably due to a missing/wrong entry in your config tree (see the flower page for runlevel details) > 2) Putting a few "exit 0"'s into /vserver/dbserver/etc/init.d/network so it > wouldn't hang on vserver start or stop(!). those scripts should not be executed at all, i.e. you better disable the 'network' service completely ... > 3) Adding an extry for the Vserver's hostname into > /vserver/dbserver/etc/hosts to stop Oracle giving me "error 46 encountered > when initializing ldm" in my alert.log hmm, resolver issues? > That last one was a harmless message but it was annoying seeing it pop up! > :) > > I then left it running a nasty AIO stress-test overnight and in the morning > it was fine. (The first time I ran it with too many threads and it extended > the undo tablespace by 15 gigs and ground to a very abrupt halt!). > > So the question is, is anybody actually running Oracle 10g inside any > Vservers and have they had any problem with it??? > > The only real downside I can see is that you'd be limiting your support from > Oracle. Unless of course you rebooted with a certified Kernel (i.e. SuSE or > Redhat), chrooted into the Vserver, and then replicated any problems before > logging a support call. Which would be a bit of hassle, especially if you > were running your applications in a Vserver on the same box!! Which is kind > of the whole point.... Unless the Vserver database is merely a "fail-over" > or standby copy. yeah, well, that's the beauty of proprietary services ... btw, postgresql is a very fine alternative to oracle, and this is not just hogwash told by folks who never used oracle before ... but of course YMMV best, Herbert > Cheers > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
