On 07/02/2006, at 2:17 AM, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > We're currently running Oracle 9i on a RHEL AS 2.1 installation. We > need to upgrade to Oracle 10g, and I've half-way convinced my boss to > upgrade to RHEL 4 (we're still discussing AS vs ES, since we're > running 2 HT processors...). > > Anyway, I want to upgrade because of EOL issues whenever RHEL 5 comes > out, but before he okays me wiping the server and installing 4, he > wants to know if we're going to get any specific benefits out of > upgrading the OS. I recall that the 2.6 kernel did a bunch of > optimization stuff, but is there anything in there that would affect > the performance of Oracle 10g? 2.6 introduced a new disk scheduler which is tunable and can make some significant differences. I always found HT on ES2.1 to be a performance liability, for what it's worth. We were using 9iR2. > And if so, are there any web sites to which I can direct him? So far > my googling hasn't been very productive. Maybe I'm using the wrong > search terms. Redhat put out some nice, succinct papers when they release a new version. They're management compatible too. I'd be looking for pdfs at redhat's site. Cheers, Edwin. -- Edwin Steele System Administrator, CommSecure Australia Ltd. ph: +61 2 94974400 fax: +61 2 94974499