Informix & Oracle on Unix

Posted in 2000

hackasack@my-deja.com — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:33:57 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Can Informix and Oracle Co-exist on the the same box? If not is there a write somewhere on why they can't co-exist? Need to justify buying another server? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Art S. Kagel — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:02:17 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

hackasack@my-deja.com wrote: > > Can Informix and Oracle Co-exist on the the same box? If not is there a > write somewhere on why they can't co-exist? Need to justify buying > another server? Informix and Oracle can coexist, only their salespeople cannot! I have run IDS7 and Oracle7/8 on the same server. There ARE some things to watch and tune for. While Informix aggressively use all of the resources that it is given to use, and don't count on many cycles on assigned CPUs or much swapped-out time for shared memory segments, Oracle will gobble as many resources as it can grab. The upshot is if you do not tune Informix with a mind to leaving resources free for Oracle the big O will get few. Conversely if you do not limit the O's greed it will starve out IDS over time. Art S. Kagel