System requirements

Check to make sure your system has the required version-level, RAM, and network-protocol requirements for Adaptive Server. See the release bulletin for your platform the latest information about required system patches.

Use 111712-16 in addition to the other patches indicated below.

AMD Architecture

**Table 2-1: System requirements for Linux 32-bit and 64-bit**
Operating system	Hardware	Optimal RAM
Linux x86 RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 update: 8 kernel 2.4.21-47.EL or higher glibc-2.3.2-95.44 or higher compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128 or higher	Intel x86 architecture Minimum: Pentium III, 300 MHz Recommend: at least 1 GHz	128 MB At least 512 MB
Linux x 86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update: 0 kernel -2.6.9-5.EL glibc-2.3.4-2	Intel x86 architecture Minimum: Pentium III, 300 MHz Recommend: at least 1 GHz	128 MB At least 512 MB
Linux x86 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 9.0 Update: 2 kernel 2.6.5-7.191 or higher glibc 2.3.3-98.47 or higher compat-2004.7.1-1.2 or higher	Intel x86 architecture Minimum: Pentium III, 300 MHz Recommend: at least 1 GHz	128 MB At least 512 MB
Linux x86 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 10 kernel 2.6.13-15 or higher glibc 2.3.5-40 or higher	Intel x86 architecture Minimum: Pentium III, 300 MHz Recommend: at least 1 GHz	128 MB Recommend: at least 512 MB
Linux x64 RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 update 8 kernel 2.4.21-47.EL or higher glibc-2.3.2-95.44 or higher compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128 or higher	AMD Opteron Processor or Intel Xeon with EM64T support	128 MB Recommend: at least 512 MB
Linux x64 RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update: 0 kernel -2.6.9-5.EL glibc-2.3.4-2	AMD Opteron Processor or Intel Xeon with EM64T support	128 MB Recommend: at least 512 MB
Linux PSeries RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 update 8 kernel 2.4.21-47.EL or higher glibc-2.3.2-95.44 or higher compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128 or higher vacpp.rte-7.0.0-0 or higher	IBM pSeries Server with POWER5 CPU	256 MB Recommend: at least 512 MB
Linux PSeries Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update: 0 kernel -2.6.9-5.EL glibc-2.3.4-2 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3	IBM pSeries Server with POWER5 CPU	256 MB Recommended: at least 512 MB
Linux Itanium Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update: 4 kernel -2.6.9-42.EL glibc: glibc-2.3.4-2.25 ia32el: ia32el-1.6-10.EL4	Intel Itanium/Itanium 2 architecture	256 MB Recommended: at least 512 MB
Linux Itanium SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 kernel -2.6.16.21-0.8.or higher glibc: glibc-2.4-31.2 or higher ia32el: ia32el-6.5-17.2 or higher	Intel Itanium/Itanium 2 architecture	256 MB Recommended: at least 512 MB

**Table 2-2: Disk space requirements for Linux 32-bit platforms**
Product	Disk space requirements
Adaptive Server typical install	620MB
Default databases created during install	150MB
Total	1320MB

If you are running RHEL 5 or higher, use these settings:

kernel.exec-shield = 0
kernel.randomize_va_space = 0

The following patches are required for GUI components to work properly:

xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-2
openmotif-2.2.3-6

Adaptive Server needs the following variable:

LD_POINTER_GUARD set to 0