Re: oracle rmap kernel version

[Martin J. Bligh]

> Does anyone have any production experience running Oracle 8i on Linux? I've 
> run it at home, RH 7.2 with vanilla 2.4.16 kernel all IDE drives, and its 
> fast. We are replacing our SUN/Oracle 8 servers at work in next couple of 
> months with Linux/Oracle 8i (Pentium 4 1GB ram).  My question is, what is the 
> best kernel version to use,  vanilla 2.4.x or a RH kernel built from the ac 
> tree with rmap. All drives will be SCSI. 
> I read an interview yesterday with Rik van Riel where he said rmap worked 
> better for db servers but I expect that he is partial to rmap 8-).
> Our web servers are running vanilla 2.4.16 and we haven't had a problem yet 
> (knock on wood).

The real answer is to try them and do a benchmark for your particular
application. Shouldn't take that long .... try the -aa tree too.

Martin.