Re: SCO and Oracle on 48 Megs of RAM

From: Karl E. Jørgensen <kjorg_at_msn*DOT*com>
Date: 1998/01/16
Message-ID: <e6UU76sI9GA.107@upnetnews04>#1/1

I don't know about the SCO variant of UNIX, but under e.g. HP, the SGA is allocated in SHARED memory.

Sometimes on machines that need to have multiple database instances running (meaning multiple SGAs), you need to increase a kernel parameter and re-build the kernel. In the old days (when I was still fiddling with UNIX kernels), you could find the kernel configuration file under the name /etc/master (can't remember which platform).

Wherever your kernel configuration file is (it varies by vendor and version - check your documentation), you would probably find a parameter call SHMEM that you can increase. But don't increase it too much.

Hope this helps

--
Karl
Oracle Certified DBA

Tom Redfern wrote in message ...


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>Anyone got Oracle 7.3 up and running under SCO Unix with 48 Megs of RAM?

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>It's supposed to be possible.  Getting the "Unable to allocate variable

 portion of SGA" error.


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>I've been messing with db_block_buffers etc. but hardly know what I'm doing

 and have had no luck.


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>Any help would be appreciated.

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>Thank you.

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Received on Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CST