From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 07:30:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA1516A400 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:30:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0363A13C45E for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B598BD338; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:30:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9WqkkNIvdnwD; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:30:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0A08BD10B; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:30:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3R7U5If078399; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:30:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:30:05 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: Michael Vince Message-ID: <20070427073005.GA78362@freebsd.org> References: <463169CB.8050304@thebeastie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463169CB.8050304@thebeastie.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle 10g on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:30:09 -0000 On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:11:07PM +1000, Michael Vince wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been contemplating buying a high end server and running a lot of > stuff on it in jails including Oracle 10g under linux emu. > I would be using Amd64 as the server would have 8gigs of ram or more. > The idea would be that the Oracle 10g would just be a slave server to a > dedicated 10g server on linux and would act as a emergency backup to the > real server and consolidate some rack space at the same time, and > hopefully could do some lighter amount work such as read queries. > > Anyone gone down this path with 10g? I was thinking that since the linux > emulation has been getting a fair bit of work lately it would be good to > try and really utilize it. I think you need linux_aio which is only in p4 and awaits final review or something. you also need correct TLS (present in cvs) and corrrect futexes (present in my head, will appear in cvs in a few days) with this I think you should be able to test the oracle :) roman