Re: How to reduce memory consumption?

From: gnewsgroup <gnewsgroup_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:15:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <358ef1ea-c831-4415-b4a7-36575853c4cb@u72g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>


On Mar 21, 2:42 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> gnewsgroup wrote:
> > I am new to Oracle.
>
> > I just installed Oracle11g enterprise edition on my Windows XP Sp2
> > system. My computer is a Pentium 4, 2.20GHz with 1G memory.
>
> > If the Oracle service is running, it consumes around 400M memory, and
> > as a result, my computer becomes barely usable.
>
> > I only need to practice / play with Oracle 11g, so I am wondering if
> > it is possible to greatly reduce its memory consumption and yet still
> > let me play with it happily.
>
> > Thank you.
>
> When you created the database instance, did
> you pay any attention to the screen where the
> memory distribution was listed?
>
> You could try to start the Database Creation Assistant
> again, and see if you can change those parameters.
>
> Alternatively, close some of the programs you are
> running; 1GB of RAM, with 40% allegedly for Oracle,
> leaves 600MB for XP, that only uses about 200,
> when installed conservatively.
> The 400MB is used somewhere else - find it!
> --
>
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>
> Top-posting in UseNet newsgroups is one way to shut me up

Yes, I did notice some screen during installation showed a default setting of 256M for something which I don't know. Received on Fri Mar 21 2008 - 14:15:40 CDT

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