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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> My $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle is 1MB...is this is a record ? :-)
Just completed installed HP-UX 11.0 (32-bits) Oracle 8.0.5 and I managed
to get $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle down to just 1MB (instead of 21MB) and
memory usage typically 500K per process (rather than 10-11MB). Similar
savings on other Oracle binaries too (i.e. anything that can be
relinked by the Oracle installer).
How did I do it ? I converted most of the .a files to .sl's (storing them in the same directory), removed the forced archive linking of the oracle binary (edit $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk and remove "-Wl,-aarchive"), re-ran the Oracle installer, selected "Add/Upgrade products", selected "Yes" to relinking Oracle executables and then re-installed all products. Oh, you can strip the binaries in $ORACLE_HOME/bin without causing a problem (I'd keep a copy of the unstripped binary in case it does fall over).
The savings doing this are phenomenal and the binaries work perfectly OK. So why doesn't Oracle ship a complete or near-complete set of shared libraries, rather than about 6 out of a possible 100 or so ?
BTW, anything I recommend here is strictly unofficial and unsupported - do it at your own risk and only on a test installation !
I have the shell script I used to convert the .a's to .sl's (got to skip some cos they don't convert) - if there's any interest, I'll post it up here. Note that this is strictly for 8.0.5 on HP-UX 11.00 - anything else is "dodgy".
Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: rkl_at_csc.liv.ac.uk Connect, WWW: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~rkl/3, Brownlow Street,
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