From: Tom Waterhouse <tomx.waterhouse@intel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Oracle8i on Sun Solaris 8
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:22:54 -0800
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Allan,

That was it.  I modified /etc/system as described in the 'Solaris 8 System
Administrator Collection, System Administration Guide, Volume 2'.  Did the
trick.

Thanks,

Tom

Allan Plesniarski wrote:

> The "out of memory" error is most likely due to shared memory kernel
> parameters.
> Increase shmmax to 1GB exactly (max 4GB on Solaris) and reboot.
> A user process can theoretically grab (shmseg x shmmax) bytes of shared
> memory.
> The amount of memory the instance is trying to allocate as determined by
> the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initSID.ora file is in excess of the current
> (shmseg x shmmax).
>
> Allan
>
> In article <3A2D8BE8.6DC44B9D@intel.com>,
>   Tom Waterhouse <tomx.waterhouse@intel.com> wrote:
> > Lee,
> >
> > Was your attempted install on Solaris Intel or SPARC?  I have not been
 able to
> > successfully install Oracle 8i (8.1.6 Enterprise) on Solaris 8 for
 Intel, and
> > have made a posting in this group stating this (Oracle 8.1.6
 installation
> > error on Solaris 8 for Intel).
> >
> > The error that I am getting is an 'out-of-memory' error.  Running the
> > $ORACLE_HOME/admin/oracle/create/oracle1.sh script will generate this
 error.
> > My thought was that Solaris had to be modified as described in the
 Oracle
> > pre-installation instructions.  Perhaps there is a general
 incompatiblity with
> > Oracle 8i and Solaris 8.
> >
> > Tom Waterhouse
> > Intel Internet Business Solutions
> >
> > Lee wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Does any one out there successfully installed Oracle 8i on Sun
 Solaris 8 ?
> > > I read the installation guide and it says that the o.s required is
 Solaris
> > > 2.6 or 2.7 but didn't mention Solaris 7 or Solaris 8.
> > > I tried to install it on Solaris 8 and get an error message when the
> > > Database Configuration Assistant try to create the database instance
> > > at the end of the installation.
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards
> > > Lee
> >
> >
>
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