Shortly after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, Oracle has its RHEL-clone Oracle Linux ge lwa pdatet to the same version number. Again provides Oracle in a custom kernel. Also, CentOS has made the jump to version 6.2.
Oracle Linux 6.2 is the databasereus supplied with two kernels: Red Hat Compatible Kernel, which is identical to that of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, which Oracle own optimizations has been implemented. Oracles kernel offers according to the company’s improved irq balancing, efficient memory management and improved network performance. In addition, it offers Oracle Linux 6.2 support for the ocfs2 file system, for opslagclusters can be applied. The latest CentOS-release copy of the new packages of RHEL 6.2.
In version 6.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux it is possible to be a ceiling to how much time a certain application is allowed to get, a relevant function in the provision of cloud computing. The kernel is updated to 2.6.32. In addition, the hardware support considerably and some are more usb 3 and pci-express chipsets.
In CentOS and Oracle Linux in the technology preview section also experiment with pnfs, a technology on the basis of the nfs protocol, which the network performance increases can be. Pnfs makes this possible by metadata and data parallel processing. In addition, there are the necessary optimizations implemented in the various components that are used for virtualization.