Oracle on Linux for prod/mission critical?

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

Is anyone out there running Oracle on Linux for anything mission critical?

We currently have production services running on Linux that we're pretty happy with and my management has asked me about the feasibility of migrating our Oracle instances/databases to it. I have 8.0.x running on RedHat 6.2 at home but that's obviously my play box.

The obvious thing that pops in to my mind is support. (OSS), particularly patches. Obviously 32-bit SPARC Solaris customers don't typically have to wait for ports. I'm also told that Larry was asked point blank about Linux support (or lack there of) at OpenWorld and basically ignored the question.

Does anyone out there have any real experience with a mission critical, decent size (~25G) database running on Linux? If so would you be willing to share you experiences? I'd be happy to take it offline (email, phone, etc.) for confidentiality reasons.

Thanks!

 

[listener22]

If you receive info offline, would you be willing to summarize it
later for the group?

Jim

oracle, vb, some javascript

 

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

sure, if I get some...

this seems to be a big question mark. I've talked to people in sales at Oracle who assure me there are several but seem unable to come up with any names.

I behind the penguin as much as the next guy but running HA Oracle for mission critical apps is not a decision to be made on religous grounds.

 

[MikeLacey]

have you asked the question in the linux server group?

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

http://www.cargill.com/

 

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

yep...

Not too much there either.

 

[MikeLacey]

"not a decision to be made on religous grounds"

I agree, don't be a pioneer....

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

http://www.cargill.com/

 

[Nix013]

We ran Oracle 5, 6, and 7 on NetWare very reliably for 4 1/2 years. Our database is only 10 GB but has 35,000,000 records and growing. Last January we moved to RedHat 6.2 and Oracle 8 with Developer 2000 and PL/SQL scripts. This is on a Compaq 1850R with their low-end SCSI Raid controller.
We are novices at Linux so I'm sure we could solve or problems with a little more knowledge.
Pro:
Speed
Con:
Backup to DLT is unreliable.
Linux has recently started acting like NT and needs to be rebooted every three days.

 

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

why are you having to reboot?

memory leaks?

runaway processes?

Oracle?

 

[MikeLacey]

"needs to be rebooted every three days"

*that's* not right -- what problems are you seeing?
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com