Re: Guide for Oracle 10g installation on Solaris 10 GA?

On 3 Apr 2005 11:02:40 -0700, "madhu" <eloormadhu_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>I also expericencing same issue for an Oracle9i installation on Solaris
>10. I have a 1 GB RAM, 2 GB swap and lot of disk space. I am getting
>Ora Err: Out of Memory.
>
>The oracle documentation asks for increased value in shmmax, shmmni etc
>in /etc/system. But the Sun docs says those changes are not required as
>Solaris 10 uses "rcladm" to manage these resources and by default
>shmmax is 1/4 of memory installed and OS will adjust the value
>dynamically.
>
>I did not find a simple command to see the existing values for these
>shared memory variables or a way to increase it in case I need it. Yes
>I agree there are some resource control programs available. But I am
>not able to interpret it correctly. Sun needs to come up with a better
>tutorial for this feature.
>Any tips?

Downgrade the system to Solaris 9, to find out whether it is an Oracle /Solaris incompatibility. As someone posted here before Oracle 9i is NOT certified against Solaris 10, so you are on your own.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA