Re: Can SGA be larger than SHMMAX?

From: Bass Chorng <bass_at_octel.com>
Date: 1997/02/25
Message-ID: <5evao4$g48@news.eng.octel.com>#1/1

oracle (oracle_at_nightmare.com) wrote:

: This is operating system dependent. But I think that on HP you can grab
: up two
: segments. I seem to remember something about 3 segments failing for one
: SGA.
: I also remember something about a 1gig SHMMAX is the largest it can be.
: So if you want a two gig SGA you can not go over 1gig for SHMMAX so you
: would have two segments.

You can't get a 2 gig SGA. The largest on 7.1.X is 700 MB and on 7.3 it is 1.7 GB. This is the limitation on Oracle regardless of the platform.

-Bass Chorng Received on Tue Feb 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CST