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By deploying Web Cache on a separate server, you can easily add midtier instances and load-balance them according to their capabilities. A new feature in Application Server 10g is the ability of the infrastructure instance to maintain the metadata repository in the infrastructure database or in a back-end database. This capability enhances manageability but could cause some performance degradation in a highly loaded back-end database. This is discussed in more detail in Chapter 9.
The Application Server Control displays memory usage, and sizing memory requirements is discussed in detail in Chapter 10.
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Oracle Home
All Oracle DBAs are familiar with the environmental variable called Oracle Home— the directory where the installer places all the product-related files. Oracle Home must be unique for each instance installed on a server, including the back-end Oracle Database. In Table 3-1, the disk space requirements are for the Oracle Home directory, so ensure that you place it on a mount point with sufficient space. Throughout this book we will reference files using the $ORACLE_ HOME environmental variable to identify files, for example:
$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/bin/opmnctl startall
