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Re: Oracle 10g on Linux kernel 2.6

From: Steve <ThisOne_at_Aint.valid>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:43:20 +1200
Message-ID: <c83eho$sqh$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>


Frank van Bortel wrote:

> 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
> 

Thanks... I tried, but still failed to get EM install up and running (: To the OP... I take it you've been to
http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/10g1install_fedora1_en.html? If not, I thoroughly recommend it.. topo site.

Cheers,

Steve Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 16:43:20 CDT

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