Re: 8.1.6 Installation problem on Solaris 8 ;ORA-27102

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> Did you reconfigure the OS according to the Oracle docs( - there are mandatory
> system settings involving shared memory, etc..) and restart?
>
> The Out of Memory indicated that maybe some parameters in your init<sid>.ora
> file are too big ( db_block_buffers, block_size, shared_pool, whatever)

We have to know how much RAM the Ultra 1 is equipped with, but I think the
problem lies somewehere else (if he didn't enter completely unrealistic values into init.ora there should be enough memory with swap and RAM ).  

> "Ravi Alluru" <ravica_at_quixnet.net> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > I installed a brand new oracle 8.1.6 Product on a new Solaris server (SUN
> >Ultra 1). I used the minimal server install and choose no for starter
> >database.
> > I got no errors during the product install.
> >Now I try to create an instance with the installed ORACLE_HOME as the Home
> >but i get the error
> >ORA-27102 out of memory
> >SVR4 Error:22: Invalid argument.

There should be a trace file generated, look in the alert.log, there you find the name of the trace file, then post this file here.

Regards,

Knut

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