Re: Oracle 7.1 on NT 3.51

Jim,

Try the service pack before you try anything else. Current SP for NT 3.51 is 5. Methinks the Service Packs are cumulative, i.e. you don't have to run 1 through 5, only 5.

Second, if your system does have plenty of resources, try increasing the parameter that controls memory allotted to the instance in init<sid>.ora. I forget exactly which parameter this is (look it up in the manual). You'll have to restart the instance for the new setting to take effect. This is most likely to help if it is always the same instance that dies. If they both die sometimes, I'd be more inclined to say it's a resource and not an Oracle problem.

BTW, how is Northeast Georgia this year? Sometimes I miss REAL SEASONS here in California. All that dang sunshine gets to you sometimes :-)

Take care,
-Owen-

Jim Johnson wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone,
> I hope that the combined expertise out there can assist me in a
> problem that I am having. Currently, I have two servers running Oracle
> 7.1 on Windows NT 3.51 server. The servers have dual Pentium Pro 200's
> with 512Mb RAM and fast disk arrays. The problem that I am having is
> that one of the two instances on one server will occasionally die. I
> have to use the instance manager to restart it. Now, I do not believe
> that the hardware is the problem because when running perfmon on NT the
> system seems to have plenty of available resources..... Now, I
> currently have no service packs installed on NT, so, this is one
> possible solution. But, on the second server with the same hardware
> configuration, I have only one instance running and it never dies. I
> know that some will say the solution is to upgrade to NT 4.0 and a newer
> version of Oracle. However, some of the custom applications that we
> have will not port easily to the newer versions of either. In the
> meantime, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Please email me
> with any ideas.
>
> Thanx in advance
> --
> r/s
> Jim Johnson
>
> mailto:jimj_at_negia.net
> http://www.negia.net/~jimj
Received on Mon Dec 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CST