From: TurkBear <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: 8.1.6 Installation problem on Solaris 8 ;ORA-27102
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:11:31 -0500
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Did you reconfigure the OS according to the Oracle docs( - there are mandatory
system settings involving shared memory, etc..) and restart?

The Out of Memory indicated that maybe some parameters in your init<sid>.ora
file are too big ( db_block_buffers, block_size, shared_pool, whatever)




"Ravi Alluru" <ravica@quixnet.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>   I installed a brand new oracle 8.1.6 Product on a new Solaris server (SUN
>Ultra 1). I used the minimal server install and choose no for starter
>database.
>  I got no errors during the product install.
>Now I try to create an instance with the installed ORACLE_HOME as the Home
>but i get the error
>ORA-27102 out of memory
>SVR4 Error:22: Invalid argument.
>
>the command i was trying after logging in to svrmgrl and connecting as
>internal was
>
>startup nomount
>pfile=/Cse-demo3001/sdmsapp/oracle8/admin/sdmsmex/pfile/initsdmsmex_0.ora
>
>My ORACLE_HOME  is Cse-demo3001/sdmsapp/oracle8
>My ORACLE_SID is sdmsmex
>
>What do I need to do to get rid of this error . Are there any OS specific
>tasks needed to be done before I can proceed with ther instance creation.
>
>Thanks in anticipation