Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:12:26 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, olagappan@hotmail.com Subject: Re: OS features to be done - Help Message-ID: <199803181412.JAA29484@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE413305@dcn71.dcn.att.com> from "sbabkin@dcn.att.com" at "Mar 18, 98 08:38:41 am"
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> > ---------- > > From: muthu olagappan[SMTP:olagappan@hotmail.com] > > > > Iam working on freebsd since 1997. I would like to contribute to > > > > freebsd. I have knowledge of database like Oracle. I would like to > > what > > features can be added to FreeBSD, so that database (like Oracle) > > performance will improve. I also had a look through the tasks to be > > > Did you got Oracle running on FreeBSD ? If yes, it may be a > fairly good contribution. If not, getting it running may be a very > good contribution also :-) > Note that I worked for Oracle before the company that I work for split off (NCI.) Oracle is NOT sold as a product for Linux or FreeBSD, but I know that it has run in 'various labs' at work on both. It is a marketing issue that it is not available for sale as a seperate product. I assume that the marketing people understand the tradeoffs and are making the right decision. However, with my FreeBSD-core hat on, IMO, it would be nice for FreeBSD if Oracle sold the database as an official product. The limitations that FreeBSD has running Oracle are pretty well informally understood, but AFAIK not fully characterized. Once it uses the AIO code, it should perform as well (on a single CPU system) on FreeBSD, as well as on any other small, single CPU OS. For serious database performance, the AIO usage on striped raw disks is critical. This was exactly my immediate motivation for doing the AIO code. When it is productized (the AIO code), it'll be as good as it can be (within reason.) The AIO code WILL DEFINITELY be productized in 3.0. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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