I talked with a technical person in Oracle and got the following response: I would not recommend moving production to 10g now. However, if you start a project that will be moved to production in about 9 months, start it on 10g. Yechiel Adar Mehish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Payton" <Ken.Payton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:00 AM Subject: 10g on Linux > > > I need to install Oracle on the below configuration. We have 20GB of = > memory and are running the hugemem kernel. I would like to take = > advantage of this as much as possible. We have already installed 10g = > and got it working with the huge memory footprint based on Oracle docs = > with little issue. No patching was required, although patches are = > necessary for 9i. =20 > > It is my recommendation to run 10g but would appreciate feedback in = > regard to 10g vs 9i given this configuration. I have recommendation = > against 10g in the past(on solaris), although I believe there is a = > better case given this configuration. I believe 10g will be more = > reliable based on the dedication Oracle has had to the Linux platform = > over the past two years, primarily while 10g has been developed. It is = > my understanding that Oracle is building on Linux first and then porting = > to other OS's. Are there any thoughts out there about this? If anyone = > has any experiences they would like to share it would be much = > appreciated. I am interested in both sides of the story, although = > success stories would make me much happier. > > Overview > - single instance (Non-RAC) > - SAN attached SUN 3510 Disks > - 2-4 TB database > - HP DL740 > - 8 X 2.8 GHz Zion CPU's > - 20GB RAM > - Redhat AS 3.0 hugemem kernel > Required feature set > - heap/IOT tables > - B-tree indexes > - partitioning > - transportable tablespaces > - Huge Memory support (10+GB Buffer Cache) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------