It seemed simple enough. We were moving our E-Business Suite database to a new server. References to the old database server had to be replaced in a variety of places: Oracle Internet Directory, a handful of tnsnames.ora files, and of course, the context files on the application tier servers. After that, everyone could connect to the database just as they always had. No problems, right?
Well, okay, maybe one small problem.
The excitement of solving mysteries makes me bad at math
In my last post, I failed to notice that a HugePages_Total of 4645, while satisfyingly greater than zero, is definitely not 8196, the desired and expected value I had configured. Upon reflection, the reason was pretty obvious: the OS will only allocate contiguous blocks of memory [...]
What happens when I try to use instructions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) to enable hugepages on SLES10? Nothing. And that’s a problem.
E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is now available. I’ve started collecting reference links that could be relevant to an upgrade, and am making them available here.
