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Re: Oracle 8.1.7 and 9i on same AIX server

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:12:30 -0800
Message-ID: <1132380749.694097@yasure>


chuck wrote:
> We have upgraded all our AIX servers to Oracle 9i. However there is 1
> application that will not run on 9i and 8.1.7 is required. Our DBAs are
> running both versions of Oracle on the same 2 servers. We have 15
> other servers that have been running with no issues and they are
> running only Oracle 9i. The 2 servers that are running both versions
> of Oracle periodicly lock-up and a reboot is required. IBM analized
> the dumps and found no memory issues.
>
> The symptoms are:
>
> Users can not telnet to server
> If already logged on at console you have a command line where you can
> enter commands but they all return the same error.
>
> "could not load program (command name) - dependent module
> libbsd.a(shr.o) could not be loaded
> system error:not enough space"
>
> Dump analysis shows no space issue related to paging or memory. We are
> getting ready to activate "Memory Overlap Detection System" and the
> "Net Malloc Police" on the AIX OS in an attempt to go into furture
> detail in our next dump analysis.
>
> Does anyone know of any known issues running both versions on the same
> server.

Anything in the Oracle alert logs?
For which version are the kernel parameters configured? Could you dump 8i and run 9i with compatible set ot 8.1.7.4?

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Sat Nov 19 2005 - 00:12:30 CST

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