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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 16:54:18 -0600, Gregg Sporar <gregg_sporar_at_i2.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to learn how to use Oracle v7.2.3 on an HP-UX machine.
>Naturally, the documentation has been lost along with the people who
>once knew something about this system, so I can't RTFM. The main
>problem I've run in to is that I can get two instances up and running,
>but not a third. When I use the Oracle Server Manager (svrmgrl) to
>attempt to create a third instance (by doing a "startup nomount"), I get
>the following error message:
>
>ORA-07279: spcre: semget error, unable to get first semaphore set.
>HP-UX Error: 28: No space left on device
>Additional information: 1
>
>The ORA-07279 error is specific to the HP-UX version of Oracle, so I
>don't have access to any docs. that will tell me more about it. I
>suspect that the HP-UX error 28 is a red herring - the system has
>several gigabytes of free space. If I shutdown one of the two running
>instances, then I can start the one that failed the first time, which
>indicates to me that the problem is some sort of limit on the number of
>instances.
The problem that you're having (I'm quite sure) is that you're running out of shared memory. Your system administrator needs to configure the kernel so that you have more shared memory and are able to start up 3 servers simultaneously. This is in the installation manual (I know you don't have manuals, doh!).
Hopefully, your system adminstrator can figure this one out for you. Good luck.
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