Re: Oracle 8.1.5 (Oracle 8i) Minimum RAM Requirement

I installed 8i on my notebook Pentium 200Mhz 64 MB. Be sure to stop all other applications before installing. (Which includes any other ORACLE Instance offcourse). I only did some SQLPLUS afterwards but things worked fine until I tried to install WEBDB too.

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:30:54 -0700, "Verna Legaspi" <vlegaspi_at_uswest.net.nospam> wrote:

>About my NT workstation 4.0 with 80mb... I rememberI had more problems with
>this. It was real slow, and I had some problems creating the database.
>Then I bumped up my virtual memory from 0 - 92mb to 200 - 300mb. I don't
>know if it was a combination of this and also using the correct parameters
>for my init<SID>.ora file that did the trick, but it (finally) worked. I've
>upgraded to 128mb of RAM since then.
>But the installation most likely came with some problems, as you can see on
>my other posting about cmadmin.exe
>
>Verna Legaspi <vlegaspi_at_uswest.net.nospam> wrote in message
>news:h4lP3.143$uV1.12290_at_news.uswest.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I must have mixed up the requirements for WebDB and 8i. I believe that it
>> was WebDB that had the requirement of either 64 or 96mb RAM, but
>recommended
>> 128mb.
>>
>> But, yes -- I've (I think) successfully installed 8i on RedHat 6.0 Linux
>box
>> with only 64mb RAM. I did have about 600mb swap partition during the
>> install and creation of the database. But I've now cut it down to only
>> about 180mb swap. I don't know if that helped the installation go
>smoothly
>> or not.
>>
>> I can startup and shutdown the database. I can connect via svrmgrl or
>> sqlplus or any other tool remotely or locally.
>>
>> However, I haven't really tried much else on it.
>>
>> Kovacs Richard <krichard_at_buga.csoma.elte.hu> wrote in message
>> news:7ukd4g$oar$1_at_goliat.eik.bme.hu...
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I would be very much interested how it would run on 64MB RAM?
>> > If basically it runs I would also install it, just for the testing..
>> > I am very much curious!
>> >
>> > In comp.databases.oracle.server Verna Legaspi <vlegaspi_at_uswest.net>
>wrote:
>> > | I believe the recommended was 128mb RAM, but the minimum is either 64
>or
>> > | 96mb RAM. I don't recall.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ritschie
>> >
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Received on Mon Nov 01 1999 - 12:48:52 CST