Re: Oracle 10g on Linux kernel 2.6

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:22:38 +0200
Message-ID: <c839k2$25i$1@news2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>

Steve wrote:

> David Giles wrote:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone can assist...
>>
>> I've just installed SuSE 9.1 (kernel 2.6.4-52) on a new box and have
>> installed Oracle 10g (10.1.0.2). The installation was fine... however...
>>
>> Every time I try creating a database (only tried through DBCA so far) 
>> the db
>> startup fails with an Ora-27125 (unable to create shared memory segment).
>>
>> I've set the kernel params as per the install documentation, these 
>> being the
>> additional parameters I've set through the sysctl.conf:
>>
>> kernel.shmall = 2097152
>> kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
>> kernel.shmmni = 4096
>> kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
>> fs.file-max = 65536
>> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
>>
>> Has anyone got this working yet..? Is it a kernel issue?
>>
>> Many thanks

>
>
> Works fine for me on RedHat Fedora/2.6.4 with 1GB memory.
>
> You may want to use ipcs to investigate/clean your available memory???
>
> Here's the relevant bit from sysctl.conf
>
> # Oracle stuff...
> kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
> kernel.shmmni = 4096
> kernel.shmall = 2097152
> kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142
> fs.file-max = 131072
> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
>
> # Oracle 10g stuff
> kernel.msgmax = 8192
> kernel.msgmnb = 65535
> kernel.msgmni = 2878
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Steve.
> PS. Anyone got Enterprise Manager to start installing??? Mine fails
> 'Checking Operating System Certification', saying I have 0MB of RAM
> available! Something changed in /proc/meminfo???

Try runInstaller -help; there's something like -ignoreSysPrereqs

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 15:22:38 CDT