Re: Urgent: Create Barebone 10g DB on a minimum RAM on a server?

lazyboy_2k_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a 10g db on my ultra 10 machine which only has
> 640MB physical RAM & 20GB diskspace. According to 10g training info, I
>
> meet the minimum requirement. Here is the requirement that I got:
>
> Memory requirements: 512 MB physical RAM
> Disk space: 1 GB swap (or twice the RAM)
> 400 MB of /tmp
> 1.5 - 3.5 GB Oracle software
> 1.2 for preconfigured database
>
> However I configure my db using dbca utility, I get this error:
>
> ORA-04031: unable to allocate 64 bytes of shared memory ("shared
> pool", "unknown object", "sga heap (1,0)", "SYSTEM
> PARAMETERS")
>
> ORA-01-34: ORACLE not available
>
> I know that if I have a larger machine w/ at least 1gb of RAM, I'll
> not have this problem.However, unfortunately I don't have that luxury
> L So, I'm wondering that is there a way to configure a barebone db
> for 10g or even 8 or 9i? What is a correct SGA & PGA memory number
> which will allow me to create db on my 640MB physical RAM machine?
> Any helps/suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Btw, this is for testing purposes, and all I need is to have a db for
> some other testings.
>
> Trully sincere,
>
> -Chris

Get a copy of the installation instructions from http://docs.oracle.com Read about kernel parameters
Clean up the machine
Reinstall

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