Oracle AS on ES 3.0

[Stephen Carville]

On Wed April 6 2005 7:28 pm, Stephen Carville wrote:
> I'm having a hell of a time getting Oracle Application Server to work on a
> Dell 2850 with Redhat 3.0.  The server claims to have started but emagent
> is using about 25% of the processor time and trying to log in on port 1810
> hangs.  I can't find anything in any log that tells me why this is
> happening.
>
> Redhat ES 3.0  -- update 4
> Dual Xeon 3400 Mhz w/HT enabled
> 4G RAM
>
> Controller:  Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI
> Disk:  Fujitsu MAT3147NC (140G)
>
> The puzzling thing is the 1850 right next to it runs fine.  I have an open
> TAR with Oracle on it but so far they've been TOBH.
>
> Any ideas?

Oracle came back with a solution!  Apparently on Redhat Es 3.0 release 4 
Oracle AS will hang on some machines

> You may be encountering Bug 4145756 - AS CONSOLE HANGS IN AS 10G 10.1.2
>
> There is a problem with RHAS Update 4 only in that it causes a hang
>
> Try setting the noexec=off flag at the kernel level.

OK, this cures the hanging problem but what does this switch do?  Does it 
affect the mount option?

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