How stable is Oracle Linux 4.5?

I have installed Oracle Linux kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.EL.
it crashes once a week. Does anyone else experience the same problem?
Upon install, installer automatically installed another kernel
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.EL with only 2G of memory.
The machine runs 3 instances of Oracle 9.2.0.8 and they die from time to time also, without any error in alert log or system log.
Probably, machine is a junk, just reqular PC.
So, does anyone runs the combo for months without any problems?
Thanks.

Hi,
No log data to analyze.As you mentioned that the machine just shipped with 2G memory.It must be experienced low memory pressure.You can set vm.lower_zone_protection=100 and monitor the machine.
Regards
Terry
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Thing is I already have Oracle Linux 6 Update 2 (the latest) installed on my machine in dual boot mode so I dropped the idea of installing version 5.2. As per the documentation 11gR2 was not certified earlier on Linux 6.2 so I thought of installing 5.2 but it is not necessary now.
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VijayDhapola wrote:
Hi Guys,
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my email: [email protected]

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This thread is locked.
It is the same question you asked in your other (active) thread:
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Hello
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Please post the output of the following command:
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h1. Oracle Linux NTFS how-to
Author: Dude
Version: B, 22-Jan-2012
h2. Purpose
This document contains instructions how to install NTFS support under Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4, 5 and Oracle Linux version 5 and 6.
h2. Topics
1) Determine Kernel Architecture and Distribution
2) Setup Software Repositories
3) Install the NTFS Kernel Driver and Software
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5) Notes
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Oracle ULN or public yum:
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Reproforge:
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Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x x86_64:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
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Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.x x86:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.x x86_64:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
Oracle Linux 6.x x86:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
Oracle Linux 6.x x86_64:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpmh3. 3) Install the NTFS Kernel Driver and Related Software
The software packages required to support NTFS depends on your current Linux distribution:
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x:
# yum install dkms dkms-fuse fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.0 - 5.2:
# yum install dkms dkms-fuse fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.3:
NTFS support under Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 is broken and you should consider to upgrade to the 5.4 or later. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481495)
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.4 - 5.x:
As of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 the the kernel fuse module (dkms, dkms-fuse) is included in the kernel and should not be installed.
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Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 6.x:
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sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="73efxxxxxxxxxxxxx_TYPE="ext3" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/dm-0: UUID="22a2d704-f75dxxxxxxx595df" SEC_TYPE="ext3" TYPE="ext2"
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/dev/sdb1: TYPE="ntfs"
{code}
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To mount the NTFS volume according to above example under the /mnt directory:
{code}
sudo mount.ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt
{code}
h3. 6) References
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS
h3. 6) Notes
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Dude.

I'm afraid there is no general answer. It depends how your device is connected, i.e. internal, usb, etc.?

How stable is Linux?

How stable is a stand-alone Linux server (RH30) for a production database server? The reason I am asking this is because I have had a production Oracle database running on a HP-UX (RISC, 4-CPU (440MHz), 8GB RAM) and have had no problems for 3 years. The CPUs are consistently 98%-99% idle. I have the same Oracle database installed on a Linux server (intel, 4-CPU (2.4GHz), 4GB RAM) and the CPU idle time is always fluctuating between 30%-50% idle. It seems like the Linux box is doing a lot of work all the time. Should I be concerned?

Hi
There's no denying that RAC and Linux are a good fit... but currently the majority of Oracle cutomers who implement RAC have done it on Solaris with HP and IBM very close behind (this is of course changing).
Oracle also has many customers who have chosen to implement standalone databases on Linux without RAC.
Linux stands on its own as stable, enterprise ready OS. Whilst customers migrating from other Unix's will be famililar with it, it still pays to search the web for best practices for administering Linux and Oracle on Linux.
Remember Oracle offers unbreakable support for Linux i.e. you can phone up Oracle for both support for Linux and Oracle for your database server.
Hope this helps
Dom

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Thomas Drolshagen (guest) wrote:
: Oracle 8.0.5. Installation on S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3
: =================================================
: After strugling for 3 weekends with the installation of Oracle
: 8.0.5. on a
: S.u.S.E. 5.3 distribution here are the installation steps that
: worked for me.
I have tried to install Oracle on SuSE 5.2. I almost complted the
installation, but kept getting a failure on installing the
database. The last entry in the install.log is:
Leaving trace.ins- Entering Make Dependent section.
- Entering do_relink==false section.
- Leaving Make dependent section.
- Entering database actions section.
Deciding to start again from scratch, I tried deleting all files
and begining again, but now I get a different error running
orainst. The installer keeps responding that 'file x already
exists'. The name of the file changes each time I run it, and no
file of that name exists. I have tried deleting the temp
directories, as well as dropping them and recreating them
elsewhere (desperation!), but I canot stop this from happening:
An operating system error occurred while trying to spawn
'/orasys/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/otrccref' while
redirecting
output to '^ @^'. (File exists.) Would you like to retry
the
operation, ignore the error, or allow the error to be
processed by
the Installer?
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