IDS 2000 on Linux

Hi All, Is anybody out there using IDS.2000 on Linux as a production database server? With a database size greater than 500 GB and with fault tolerance. Any problems? Any issues? Is it feasible? Don

Don Ignacio <dignacio@openratings.com> writes: > Hi All, > > Is anybody out there using IDS.2000 on Linux as a > production database server? With a database size greater > than 500 GB and with fault tolerance. Larger than 500GB? -Have you asked Informix? > Any problems? Any issues? Is it feasible? Linux lacks RAW-io in most distributions, ext2 is non-journaling (and ReiserFS is lacking in a few ways), tcp-ip is a little on the slow side, the scheduler is ok but not super-duper, SMP is not super, and I believe there's a shortage of storage-managers for onbar (should be verified). I'd go for "Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Optimized for Oracle 8i" (http://www.redhat.com/products/linux_oracle/) and forget everything about Oracle... Your'e still stuck with a 2.2.x kernel with slow tcp-ip, "slow" scheduler, slow VM and a OS without a journaling FS. 2.4 should remedy some of those problems and it _could_ be out in a few months -maybe. We use Linux on all our servers -and are quite happy with it- but I'd think twice about a >500GB database on Linux. Any thoughts on number of prosessors, memory, RAID etc? Thomas