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Patricia Clarke <Pclarke_at_golden.net> wrote:
>Hi Group,
>I have been having problems transferring my Oracle V6 installation
>(Oracle files, database files, and program files) from one Pentium/DOS
>notebook to a new Pentium/DOS notebook. These notebooks are used as
>standalone machines, with data being uploaded and downloaded between them
>and our Oracle 7/AIX server periodically. I have done this transfer many
>times since we have upgraded our notebooks numerous times over the past
>few years, and it has always gone smoothly until now.
>The main difference between the two notebooks that I am using is that the
>old one has 24 MB RAM while the new one has 40 MB. Other than that, they
>are almost identical machines, but, on the new notebook, the system would
>hang whenever I tried to load sqlpme. I suspected that the problem might
>be that way back in the dark ages when Oracle V6 was written, DOS
>machines weren't capable of accessing much memory compared to today and
>that the programs therefore may be having trouble dealing with the memory
>above 32 MB or so. I experimented with various autoexec and config
>changes but had no luck.
.....
>have tried using the DYNAMIC_MEMORY parameter in my CONFIG.ORA to limit
>the amount of memory available to Oracle, but that didn't help either.
I have had dthe samen problem with 32 mbyte. I have put :
DYNAMIC_MEMORY=13100 In my init.ora (c:\ORACLE6\) 13100 is ge geatest value with works wel.
goed bye
Jurrian
>Thanks,
>Patricia Clarke
>pclarke_at_golden.net
>Hybrid Turkeys
>Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Ps. Let niet op de taalfouten, ik ben woordblind. Received on Thu Jan 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CST