Very Computer

Hi,
does anybody run Sybase and Oracle on the same Unix Box?
Is it possible?
I appreciate the answer.

Sergei, Oracle/Sybase DBA

On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:07:31 -0600, Sergei Galperin

it should be (and isn't) any problem, but consider the performance.
When there are several users you'll prefer dedicated unix servers.

Pascal.

Not a problem from the technical standpoint.  We've got a development
server that hosts 3 versions of Sybase, 2 versions of Oracle, 2 versions
of Informix, and 1 version of DB2.

We've got maybe 40 users logged into the system of whom 4 - 8 are
accessing a database.  None of the database access is performance
intensive.

We're a bit memory constrained, so we don't run all of the versions at
the same time (most are configured to use 64 MB per), but there is
almost always one version of each product running.  Sybase doesn't share
CPU well with the default configs.  There is a parameter that you can
tweak to shorten the amount of time it sits in spin loops waiting for
something to happen.  Don't remember what it is off the top of my head.

It is possible, in fact, it is as easy as installing one, and then the
other. The issue is performance. They will compete for resources, and
neither will be performing to their potential. I actually have an Oracle
8 server, and ASE 11.0.3.3 running on one Linux machine (The Oracle 8 is
not really used much, but it is installed, and running). The system is
far from working at its limits of capacity though ;-) I think the Apache
web server is the busiest process ;-)

gus

Yes, no problem..