I was looking at running oracle xe on a linode and was wondering if any one had done this before? Would it run ok on a linode 360 or would it require a lot more ram?

from the Oracle web site link http://www.oracle.com/technology/produc ... index.html

"Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size host machine with any number of CPUs (one database per machine), but XE will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one CPU on the host machine."

I looked around and did not see minimum requirements.

James

The Installation Guide (linked to from the download page - http://www.oracle.com/technology/softwa ... 44/toc.htm) for the Linux version shows 256MB minimum RAM and 512MB recommended (along with 1.5GB disk). It also recommends 2x RAM for swap for a system with between 256MB-512MB RAM, though that could just be a generic Linux recommendation rather than an indication that Oracle is going to be swapping at that scale.

All in all, a best guess is that a Linode 360 might only perform well for fairly small databases. But it certainly seems capable of running an XE server, at least for test purposes.

-- David