Re: Installing 8.1.6 on Redhat

From: <asbarrus_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 17:15:27 GMT
Message-ID: <8pb6qo$4j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

I ran in to trouble with this too. In order to increase shared memory, you have to recompile the kernel. I couldn't get my mylex raid card to compile in the new kernel, so I gave up and just do this:

echo 134217728 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

after starting the server, or in the /etc/rc.d/init.d file or something.

This is in bytes, and gives me a shared memory maximum of 128 meg. You can set it to whatever you want, I believe if you set it higher than existing RAM it won't hurt anything anyway, but Oracle might be confused.

This worked for me, of course your milage may vary! I'm on redhat 6.2 with oracle 8.1.6.1 (or 8i release 2).

In article <9EYt5.18537$gg.5565304_at_typhoon.southeast.rr.com>, "kevin grabow" <kgrabow_at_carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> okay, I've installed the pre-req software, and I've gotten to the
> semaphore/shared memory section. While not a complete newbie to Linux
or
> Oracle, i just don't understand what to do here. Could someone post
their .h
> files here?
>
> FYI, I'm running Red Hat 6.3 on a PIII 450 w/256 Meg of Ram.
>
>

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Before you buy. Received on Fri Sep 08 2000 - 12:15:27 CDT