Help! We're down with ORA-7332 on Digital Unix box

Help! We’re running a DEC Alpha Server 4100 with Digital Unix v3.2. After a  reboot the database has failed to come up, with ORA-7332.

We haven’t changed the OS or the database config and everything looks okay.  Perhaps something got zapped. As an experiment, I tried starting the db with  a minimally configured SGA, but no effect.

Got any clues? The error diagnostics (below) suggest a problem with Unix  kernel shared memory parameters but we haven’t touched those. (We would know  if we had because it would require rebuilding the Unix kernel.)

We believe the machine has been running for months without changes. A “clone”  machine is running fine.

SRMGR> startup

ORA-7332: smsmat: shmat error unable to attach sga DEC OSF/1 (AXP) Error 12: Not enough space Additional information : 2

//* Cause: Failed to attach shared memory segment, after having gotten it.

//* Action: Check errno returned. Verify that SGA attach address is valid.
// Additional information indicates the SGA model attempted

We’re stuck. Any comments are appreciated. Please respond to **both** email  addresses below.

Thanks,

Jim Peterson
jpeter5558_at_aol.com
GHill_at_evalcomp.corr.ca.gov Received on Wed Oct 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST