On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:37:41 -0800 > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > does anyone have any experience running linux on big memory > > configurations (greater than 4GB)? i'm going to need to upgrade a box > > > > to 8GB in the near future, and i was wondering if there were any > > special > > considerations (other than builing a kernel with bigmem support)? > > I have one client running Oracle on a big SMP system. It really is just > configuring for 64Mb support. If free says you only have 3Mb or some > such, then you don't have 64Mb support turned on. > > Now, depending on what you're running on that monster, you may need to > tweak some kernel parameters in /proc (I had to for my client). But > things like that come in the instructions with those programs (like > Oracle) needing it. (I also had to adjust the user environment on login > too.)
thanks for your reply. it will be running three oracle 9i instances, and about 35-40 user mode linux instances. AFAIK, the kernel /proc parameters that oracle requires are the same regardless of the amount of physical memory in the box. what other changes did you make? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
