Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:34:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | Re: Linux decent performance |
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On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Chai Harjo wrote:
> > Hi all, > > I forward the article from news group. > Check below. > Is this true? > > Chai Harjo > > =========== > > Re: Sybase for Linux? (gray@voicenet.com (Scott Gray), 0:29) > > In article <slrn5abcdu.f58.ise118@vtaix.cc.vt.edu>, > Ram Kalapatapu <ise118@vtaix.cc.vt.edu> wrote: > > > >Does anybody know of an important contact at Sybase I can talk to about > >a port of Sybase SQL Server to Linux? I think Sybase is loosing an > >important business oppurtunity by ignoring the second most popular > >flavor of UNIX. I would also like to hear from fellow netters about their > >views on Linux as a dataserver platform especially in light of the > >significant changes in 2.x version of the kernel. > > Unfortunately, from my understanding of the recent Linux kernel, there > are several features missing in order to make Linux a viable platform > for SQL Server, the largest being the lack of async i/o, raw partition > devices, and locking shared memory. None of these are required in order > to get SQL Server to run, however they are required to get anything > resembling descent performance and reliability on the platform. >
I don't know about asynchronous I/O and locking shared memory, but linux does support raw partition devices, and always has.
+-----------------------+----------------------------------+ | Nathan Bryant | Resident Unix Geek | | nathan@burgessinc.com | Burgess Business Solutions, Inc. | +-----------------------+----------------------------------+
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