Re: High swap utilization when running Oracle 9i

[mcclnx mcc <mcclnx yahoo com tw>]

Can you say more detail where is "RHEL 4 and there's a

 document (B13670-06)  on the Oracle Technet".  I can
NOT found it on OTN.

Thanks.

 
>
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oracle9i.html
--- Dirk Gfroerer <Dirk Gfroerer guh-software de>
wrote:
> >     I haven't done the Oracle 9i + RHEL4
> combination but I did notice a 
> > reference to the following URL on the fedora-devel
> list today which 
> > discusses installing Oracle 9i on Fedora Core 3.
> FC3 is fairly closely 
> > related to RHEL4 so it may help.
> > 
> > http://www.pagux.com/oracle9ionfedora3.html
> > 
> >     Naturally there are some package differences
> between RHEL4 and FC3 
> > so I cannot be certain that everything referenced
> is available in RHEL4. 
> > The document does references some of the kernel
> parameters needed but 
> > does not include a reference to  vm.pagecache.
> Stephen,
> 
> thanks for helping out. Oracle has certified 9i on
> RHEL 4 and there's a 
> document (B13670-06)  on the Oracle Technet 
>
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oracle9i.html
> which 
> describes quite well how to install 9i on RHEL 4
> (you need some 
> additional patches and rpms from MetaLink). It
> worked flawlessly and the 
> databases are back up running. I removed the 
> compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-3.rpm after the installation
> since I don't like 
> my gcc being replaced by an Oracle shell script :o).
> 
> The problem I'm facing now, is, that the machine was
> using hardly any 
> swap with RHEL 3 (with vm.pagecache = 1 10 20).
> Currently the machine is 
> using 600 MB of swap. From how the machine is
> responding, it seems like 
> the Oracle buffers were paged out, which is ...
> suboptimal. vm.pagecache 
> no longer exists on RHEL 4. I think for a 2.6 kernel
> I should be using 
> vm.swapiness. However I'd like to hear from other
> people what they're 
> doing, before playing around with kernel parameters.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kind Regards,
> Dirk
> 
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