From: Knut Talman Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 8.1.6 Installation problem on Solaris 8 ;ORA-27102 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 03:57:33 +0200 Organization: myToys.de GmbH Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3B1EDF8D.31717820@mytoys.de> References: <9fm4am$n6k$1@news.sinet.slb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: h-213.61.134.194.host.de.colt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: crusher.de.colt.net 991879053 25833 213.61.134.194 (7 Jun 2001 01:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news1.de.colt.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jun 2001 01:57:34 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: de Comments emmbedded. > 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.ora > file are too big ( db_block_buffers, block_size, shared_pool, whatever) We have to know how much RAM the Ultra 1 is equipped with, but I think the problem lies somewehere else (if he didn't enter completely unrealistic values into init.ora there should be enough memory with swap and RAM ). > "Ravi Alluru" 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. There should be a trace file generated, look in the alert.log, there you find the name of the trace file, then post this file here. Regards, Knut -- Knut Talman Fon +49 30 72 62 01 411 dba@myToys.de Fax +49 30 72 62 01 222 The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA