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Re: Sun Solaris 2.6/5.6, Oracle 8.0.6 and SHMMAX

From: S. Anthony Sequeira <Sequeira_at_lineone.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:48:59 +0100
Message-Id: <10549.111203@fatcity.com>

> Where are you getting your 'value recommended by Oracle' from?
According to
> the installation guide (for 8.1.5, but I'm sure that it is similar on
8.0),
> SHMMAX should be set to 0.5 * (physical memory present in machine) -
in your
> case, 512Mb. I suspect that if you try to run an SGA bigger than
physical
> memory, you are in for a whole world of pain with paging and swapping.
>
> Regards
> David Lord
> Senior DBA, Axis Resources, Cardiff.

    From the Oracle8 Release 8.0.6 Installation Guide for Sun SPARC Solaris 2.x, Part #: A70109-1

    Pp: 2-5 - 2-6

    Regards.

Tony

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Received on Wed Jul 05 2000 - 05:48:59 CDT

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