Re: Running Informix and Oracle on the same Unix box

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:07:08 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Arun Shastry wrote: > > Last time we tried to that we ran into tough waters and had to abort. > The two engines need different kernel parameters, and they also > have memory conflicts. Most importantly, find out if you'll be > able to tech support from either one of them in this kind of a > situation :-) (more political than technical) > > Arun > > Vic Goldberg wrote: > > > Folks -- > > > > For various and sundry reasons, we're going to try to run both > > an Informix instance and an Oracle instance on the same AIX 4.3 box. > > We'll be running Informix 7.3, and Oracle 7.2.2.3. > > > > Are there any gotchas that we should know about? My guess is > > that the biggest problem would be shared memory conflicts - any > > thoughts? We have had no problems, except both servers wanting all the resources for themselves, but that's to be expected. We run on DG/UX M88K. Art S. Kagel