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,
