Re: HP-UX 10.20 file size limit

From: Piotr Kolodziej <pkol_at_otago.gda.pl>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:17:33 +0100
Message-ID: <73m8vi$kp1$1@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>

opus wrote in message <365D7615.761B_at_nospam.ca>...
>I believe the largest data file you can get is 2 GIG correct? I was
>trying to get a 12G tablespace and found out that I had to create 6 2G
>files to do it. This seems to be a limitation of the OS itself, anyone
>know the reason why this so?
>
>Also, another gentleman in this newsgroup mentioned that he couldn't =
get
>a SHMMAX higher than 1 Gig in the kernel even if he has more memory =
than
>that. Hmmmmmm, begs the question as to why again. I don't have =
official
>HP support or I'd ask'em so thought I'd try here to start with.
>
>Please reply to newsgroup and not email, thanks all in advance...

HP-UX 10.20 supports large file pointer. But not every release of Oracle takes advantage of it. As far as I remebrer, the first one was 7.3.3 with a patchset (I don't remember which exactly, but 7.3.3.6 should already work).

Regards,
Piotr Kolodziej
pkol_at_otago.gda.pl Received on Fri Nov 27 1998 - 07:17:33 CST