Comments on: Oracle buys Sun – hooray! http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/ Oracle troubleshooting, internals and performance tuning Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:28:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-1426 Tanel Poder Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:50:55 +0000 http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/#comment-1426 Yes I prefer Solaris over Linux from pure OS software perspective. Even without DTrace, Solaris'es instrumentation is superior to what Linux provides. Oh yes I could download all the patches for Linux kernel and recompile it which would give me some more instrumentation, but this is not realistic in enterprise world. We want packaged, preinstalled instrumentation which is safe and works. The example commands I'm talking about (leaving DTrace out) are prstat -m (microstate accounting), cpustat, cputrack, busstat, trapstat, vmstat -p (paging stats broken down by page type), vmstat actually showing the VM scan rate "sr" column etc. And DTrace of course completely changed the game. The problem right now is of course that Oracle is not properly supported on x64 platform, but if you run on SPARC you get less bang for the buck due slower CPUs, especially if you have CPU based Oracle licenses. But I'm pretty sure Oracle will kick its Solaris x64 port running at full speed now! Yes I prefer Solaris over Linux from pure OS software perspective. Even without DTrace, Solaris’es instrumentation is superior to what Linux provides. Oh yes I could download all the patches for Linux kernel and recompile it which would give me some more instrumentation, but this is not realistic in enterprise world. We want packaged, preinstalled instrumentation which is safe and works.

The example commands I’m talking about (leaving DTrace out) are prstat -m (microstate accounting), cpustat, cputrack, busstat, trapstat, vmstat -p (paging stats broken down by page type), vmstat actually showing the VM scan rate “sr” column etc.

And DTrace of course completely changed the game.

The problem right now is of course that Oracle is not properly supported on x64 platform, but if you run on SPARC you get less bang for the buck due slower CPUs, especially if you have CPU based Oracle licenses.

But I’m pretty sure Oracle will kick its Solaris x64 port running at full speed now!

]]> By: CarlosAL http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 CarlosAL Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:19:51 +0000 http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/#comment-1419 Wait and see what's next: unbreakable Solaris ;-) Cheers. Carlos. Wait and see what’s next:

unbreakable Solaris ;-)

Cheers.

Carlos.

]]> By: Senthil Murugan http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Senthil Murugan Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:05:08 +0000 http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/#comment-1418 Even though we all love Oracle , Open source software must be encouraged , work towards development of it . Worried what will happen to fate of mysql and open office :( Even though we all love Oracle , Open source software must be encouraged , work towards development of it . Worried what will happen to fate of mysql and open office :(

]]> By: Brett Schroeder http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-1417 Brett Schroeder Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:41:40 +0000 http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun-hooray/#comment-1417 This may be an unfair question but here goes anyway :-) Do you prefer Solaris over Linux for running Oracle? If yes, why? Better debug tools (DTrace), more efficient use of server memory due to ISM feature etc? This may be an unfair question but here goes anyway :-)

Do you prefer Solaris over Linux for running Oracle? If yes, why? Better debug tools (DTrace), more efficient use of server memory due to ISM feature etc?

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