One of the announcements made at Open World was ( my quotes )
"enhanced Red Hat compatibility".

Or in other words Oracle is still keeping/maintaining OEL with a Red
Hat compatible version but is also now providing ( and advocating
pretty strongly at least in the Keynotes ) that customers consider a
new ( and much more current/updated ) new kernel.

Supposedly like 4 years worth of new changes/fixes/enhancements rolled
into a new kernel.

So now you can roll with the current Red Hat compatibility or start
using the new features.

Has anyone gotten around to testing this yet?

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:03:28 -0700, John Hurley wrote:


Yes.



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Mladen:

# Yes.

Geez do we have to pay you by the word around here? Any small writeup
or set of comments to get us kick started in this ( probably doomed to
failure ) discussion? Favorably impressed and/or/not so much?

Our environment uses some pretty generic IBM servers running quad core
Xeons and EMC storage. OEL 5.5 ( just finished getting them all
upgraded ). Standard 32 gig of RAM ...

I don't think I am going to get a lot more out of the current boxes
( and performance is pretty snappy really ) by the upgrade and will
probably stay at least for a while Red Hat compatible. Maybe after
11.2 rolls in ?

Dunno no clear plans at the moment for me at where this whole thing
might fit in. With some real high end hardware sure why not start
checking it out. Us small fish though ... dunno.

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:26:27 -0700, John Hurley wrote:

I am favorably impressed. The main thing for me is that tools like iotop
and atop can now show me which process is doing the most of disk I/O.
That is the main reason why I was looking into it. I was also able to get
my db_flash_cache_file to work but, alas, no speed increase. I probably
shouldn't be using 2 years old 16GB USB stick to see some improvement.
That is the extent of my testing.
PS:
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I was just kidding when I replied only with "yes".



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