Re: Effect of lack of memory

Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote in message news:<19pu1vcp3vcvsg59ng5a9p0hes88q9j7jf_at_4ax.com>...
> "David Sharples" <david.sharples3_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Yes I know. It is only a short test. I was just not sure if Oracle
> absolutely requires "unswappable" memory areas in order to start.
>
> It seems that it doesn't.

No problem with swapping (with exception of performance). I had an Oracle instance which consumed 14GB of memory on 4GB box. So 10GB swaped out, everything works correctly just very

sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

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