Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > All, > > 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? > > 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. > Here's a somewhat dated comparison for your PHB to peruse.... http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html Cheers,