Migrating Linux Applications to Solaris

If you are a developer looking for some guidance on porting Linux applications to Solaris operating system (running on x86/x64/SPARC architectures), here is a short but useful porting guide for you:Porting to the Solaris™ OS: A guide for Linux developers__________Technorati tags:Linux | Solaris | OpenSolaris | Port...

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Upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 to CU2

Some notes I collected from the exercise of upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 to 11.5.10 CU2*, on Sun Solaris:[Middle-tier] Apply patch 4318672 on all application server nodes Enable maintenance mode by running adadmin. Apply patch 4318672 with the help of adpatch tool. Carefully read README.txt of 4318672, and run Technology Stack Validation tool in both middle- and db-tiers.Note: Set PARALLEL_MAX_SERVERS parameter to the default value returned by show parameter cpu_count. For example, if the database is running on a SunFire T2000 server,...

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Oracle Apps on T2000: ORA-04020 during Autoinvoice

The goal of this brief blog post is to provide a quick solution to all Sun-Oracle customers who may run into a deadlock when a handful of threads are running Autoinvoice Master Program (RAXMTR) on SunFire CoolThreads server, T2000.If you are not happy with Autoinvoice performance, or if you feel like the AI program is crawling* when multiple threads are handling the submitted jobs, check the trace files generated in udump directory for a pattern like 'ORA-04020: deadlock detected while trying to lock object ...'. If there is a deadlock, you may...

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