Oracle Metalink was useless — total waste of time — I hate that site now, it’s gone completely into the crapper.

SOLUTION (thanks to David D’Acquisto advice):

1) edit /etc/system as follows:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=12025908428
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set max_nprocs=30000
set maxuprc=16384

2) setup project for oracle user (if it’s already setup then just ignore the duplicate error while running projadd command):

projadd -U oracle user.oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-sem-ids=(priv,100,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "process.max-sem-nsems=(priv,256,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,12025908428,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-ids=(priv,100,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "process.max-file-descriptor=(priv,65536,deny)" user.oracle

3) bounce the box:

init 6

Here’s how to check for the setting:

## before above changes were applied
##
$ kstat|grep v_proc
        v_proc                          16362
$
 
$ kstat |grep v_maxup
        v_maxup                         16357
        v_maxupttl                      16357
$
 
## after changes/reboot
##
 
$ kstat|grep v_proc
        v_proc                          30000
$
 
$ kstat |grep v_maxup
        v_maxup                         16384
        v_maxupttl                      29995
$

NOTE: the setting above are based on 16gb of RAM if yours is less/more — adjust as per David’s formula.

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John Fowler (executive vice-president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems) had this to say:

No other vendor today is shipping fully-integrated flash-based hardware and software that leverages a world-class operating system – Solaris – to deliver these breakthrough world record performance results.

This is getting very interesting … Goodbye Oracle Linux?

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1. 11gR2 is here!

The pricing model allows incremental growth using the following stages:

Basic System – $110,000
Quarter Rack – $350,000
Half Rack – $650,000
Full Rack – $1.15M

Key Internals are as follows (per Full RACK):
8 Sun Fire X4170 DB Nodes per RACK
14 Sun Fire X4275 Storage Nodes per RACK
Combo of multiple Sun Quad Data Rate (QDR) Datacenter InfiniBand Switches 36 capable of 40Gb/sec

Oracle/SUN claim that by using X4275 they were able to significantly simplify storage solution eliminating complex SAN architectures. Here’s a brief overview of the architecture – Sun Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server. And here’s the presentation Larry Ellison gave at The Sun Oracle Database Machine Announcement.

So is Exadata Version 2 a final blow to Oracle/HP relationship? Time will tell, all I can say is that we couldn’t be happier with our HP hardware running Oracle Application Servers, Oracle RAC and various middle-tier solutions on Oracle EL.

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And as I have predicted, the first distro is Linux x86 and Linux x86-64. So if you are a die-hard Solaris fan it should now be obvious (if it wasn’t already) that Linux is now officially the preferred platform (as Solaris once was but no longer is).

I actually wasn’t expecting this in September — I thought it was going to get announced closer to Oracle Open World but I am not complaining here

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