From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 07:55:09 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 89C2D16A401; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:55:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608C513C457; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:55:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD2E4CE7C; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:55:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smitch7.jumbuck.com (p82.jumbuck.com [206.112.99.82]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041404C9AA; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:55:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smitch7.jumbuck.com (mail.jumbuck.com [206.112.99.82]) by smitch7.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383C7410EAE; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beaste5.jumbuck.com (melbourne.jumbuck.com [150.101.166.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smitch7.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFFC410D44; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beaste5.jumbuck.com (beast5 [192.168.46.105]) by beaste5.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A658209D265; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:55:05 +1000 (EST) Received: from beast2.jumbuck.com (unknown [192.168.46.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by beaste5.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A65A209D1CE; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:55:05 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4631AC58.4000000@thebeastie.org> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:55:04 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070314 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <463169CB.8050304@thebeastie.org> <20070427094310.gtvywoy99cccko8g@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20070427094310.gtvywoy99cccko8g@webmail.leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP 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 07:55:09 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Michael Vince (from Fri, 27 Apr 2007 > 13:11:07 +1000): > >> 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. > > You will not be able to use this much of RAM in linux programs. Only > 32bit linux programs run on amd64 so far. > The idea behind using Amd64 FreeBSD is just to be able to use a lot of ram for the other regular jails etc. The Linux Oracle would be the 32bit version, Oracle unlike MySQL appears to slice it self up into a lot of smaller sized processes a lot like Postgres. Do you think I would have any issues using it this way? Thanks