Re: Sun Solaris 2.6/5.6, Oracle 8.0.6 and SHMMAX

Tony
yup - I've got serveral machines where SHMMAX is 4GB and the overall RAM + swap is 3GB. Works fine. I'd check they've got the security/recommended patch set as it could be problem with their particular hardware and Sol 2.6 thats been fixed (althought I can't quickly see anything on sunsolve).

Martin

"S. Anthony Sequeira" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have come in to a site where Oracle 8.0.6 is installed on a Sun
> Solaris (2.6/5.6) machine with 1GB RAM 2GB swap.
>
> The SHMMAX kernel parameter is set to 25% of the value recommended
> by Oracle.
>
> The customer claims that when they set it to Oracle's recommended
> value, it refused to boot (the kernel panicked). They also claim that
> they were told by Sun support that Oracle's recommended value
> (approximately 4GB), is too large for a machine with only 3GB memory
> (including swap).
>
> I am sure that I have managed to set this parameter to Oracle's
> value on machines with less memory than this one, but I may be wrong.
>
> Any comments?
>
> TIA.
>
> Tony
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> S. Anthony Sequeira
>
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Received on Wed Jul 05 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT