I got a help request from a client who was running Oracle 11.1.0.6 64-bit. Their memory_target parameter was set to 5G, with sga_target and all pool parameters set to 0. pga_aggregate_target was explicitly set to 750MB. However, Oracle would not allocate more than 64MB RAM to the Buffer Cache. We
Month: August 2009
A million kernels, a million I tell you!
This article describes how scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore were able to run a million linux kernels on a single system as virtual machines. That’s a whole mess of VMs. Given the enormous amount of growth the computing world has gone through in the last few decades, you
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You have to love software marketing. Imagine buying a new car. In the new car comes leather seats, A/C, and a killer sound system. After driving it around for a few days, you get a reminder from the dealership: The leather seats, A/C, and sound system are separately licensed products.