Re: Oracle import allocate memory until AIX crash ?!

If you wouldn't mind helping me out here I ran lsattr -El mem0 -a size and got
size 512 Size in Mbytes False
How do I interpret that?
swap reads 2.144 GB

Pradhan wrote:

> Hi
> looking into the paging space into the AIX box will be a good idea.
> If your disks have enough space then increasing the paging space
> will solve the problem. As an thumb rule two times the size of real
> memory should be the paging space and this is not necessarily
> a RULE it just a thumb rule. If you need the larger paging space
> and your hard drive can fit it then if I were U i will increase the
> paging space little more..
>
> lsps -a
> will show the size of paging space in the system
>
> lsattr -El mem0 -a size
> will show the size of real memory
>
> HTH
> pradhan
>
> Goin'n bold wrote in message <7nmr7d$oon$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >Hi !
> >
> >When running imp on one of our large (tables containing more then
> >1.000.000 rows) databases in Oracle 8 runing on a AIX 4.x machine the
> >machine crashes.
> >
> >We started a monitoring program on the AIX server and found that it's
> >eating up all virtual memory during import. Starting at ca: 128 MB of
> >free memory it just start to allocate memory until it reaches 0 MB and
> >crashes.
> >
> >Has anyone had any experience with this ? is it working as designed (
> >and we need to buy more memory ) or is it a bug ?
> >
> >If it's working as designed where can we restrict memory usage so the
> >import can continue ( a bit slower due to less memory) without taking
> >down the machine.
> >
> >Looking at the imp parameters we have played around with BUFFER and
> >COMMIT but the result is the same...
> >
> >/TIA, Jer
> >
> >
> >
> >--
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> >
> >
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Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 16:49:42 CDT