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"Lance" <lancehatfield_at_atl.mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:ZwRD7.3467$KE2.2390859_at_typhoon.jacksonville.mediaone.net...
> Thanks for the reply. I am looking to upgrade to XP, but haven't seen
> anything being offered by Oracle for that platform. Has Oracle certified
8i
> (or 9i) for XP?
>
No. But it's certified for 2000, and XP is just 2000 with knobs on. I have
it working here. But no, it's not certified -but probably will be soon.
> I won't argue the point about Win98, but in it's defense, I haven't had a
> memory leak problem (at least, nothing nearly as dramatic as what is
> currently happening) in the 2+ years I've been running on it. It wasn't
> until I extracted the 8.1.7 zip file that the problem occurred. Not
saying
> it's Oracle's fault, but somehow, this triggered the situation. No other
> changes had/have been made to my system for at least a week prior to this.
>
Well, I'm not defending Oracle, either. But merely unzipping files would
not induce a memory leak. If you *ran* something, and not merely unzipped,
fair enough.
> One point I failed to mention in my original post, which could very well
be
> part of the problem is that I am running 96MB ram.
>
You need 128M for 8i. 512M is the stated minimum for 9i (but I've got it
going in 256M without difficulty). But then I upgraded to 1Gb, and haven't
looked back!
> My main goal right now is to stop the leak, as it is a royal pain in the
> a$$. Of course, if it continues, it might help convince my wife to let me
> upgrade with a new PC altogether! Seriously though, I rather fix this
issue
> for now.
>
Honestly: I can't see that its fixable. Taking what you wrote literally,
you had a perfectly decent machine, you unzipped a file but didn't execute
it, you developed a memory leak. Either you are using a weird unzipper
(unlikely), the file was infected with a virus or worm (equaly unlikely if
it came direct from technet or Oracle CDs), or our definitions of memory
leaks is in divergence.
After you extracted the files, but before you ran them, how did you
determine that a memory leak had developed? What tools/diagnostics told you
that?
And after you ran the installer, you said you developed a "horrendous"
memory leak -again, how did you diagnose that? What I'm getting at is that
if you did a default installation, you would have got a database created
with some very large memory settings, and I would expect RAM consumption to
go through the roof -but that's not my definition of a memory leak. A
memory leak would be where RAM is consumed, and never released, even after
the database is closed, and all Oracle executables ended in a 'normal'
fashion. I'd also expect a memory leak to get progressively worse over
time, until we reach the point that the machine simply ceases to function,
or crashes.
Certainly, if memory consumption shot through the roof merely by unzipping a
few files, and before any installation, something's wrong. That's why I
want to know what the actual figures were, and what you used to obtain them.
We need to be clear that it *is* a memory leak and not just large memory
consumption.
Regards
HJR
> Thanks again!
>
> Lance
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
> news:3bdf6ad4$0$27003$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> > Well, two key phrases in your post sprang to my attention: "Even before
I
> > ran the Universal Installer...." and "I uninstalled all the Oracle
> > files...and am still experienceing the memory leak".
> >
> > The other key phrase was "...for Win98".
> >
> > You're using a dodgy operating system that experienced memory problems
> > before Oracle got anywhere near your machine. Incidentally, the idea of
> > using third-party memory utilities on Win98 is a disaster waiting to
> happen.
> >
> > It's got zilch to do with Oracle, and everything to do with Windows 98
(or
> > your particular configuration of it, anyway). Do yourself a favour, and
> > upgrade to Windows XP Home -memory leaks will be a thing of the past,
and
> > Oracle will work quite nicely on it. (If you insist, go for Windows
2000
> > Professional -which is basically XP, but without all the glitz). Not a
> > cheap option, I agree. And I won't even say that Oracle never has
memory
> > leaks, because it does, occasionally -but not before you run the
installer
> > it doesn't!
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
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> >
> > "Lance" <lancehatfield_at_atl.mediaone.net> wrote in message
> > news:H2JD7.3304$KE2.2233643_at_typhoon.jacksonville.mediaone.net...
> > > Good evening,
> > >
> > > Hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction
> with
> > a
> > > problem I've encountered. I recently downloaded 8.1.7 for Win98 to
help
> > > study for OCP. Even before I ran the Universal Installer, but after
> > > extracting the zip file, I noticed that my PC was experiencing a
serious
> > > memory leak.
> > >
> > > I successfully ran the installer, but noticed that the memory leak was
> > > horrendous. I decided to go ahead and uninstall all the Oracle files,
> and
> > > deleted all the folders associated with the installation and the
> extracted
> > > zip file. However, I am still experiencing the memory leak. For
> example,
> > > if I start up or reboot my computer, once it has fully cycled through
> the
> > > startup, the pc is running with about 15% memory free. I can free it
up
> > > (using MaxMem), but it will quickly run back down, without running any
> > > programs.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone might have for this newbie.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 31 2001 - 13:43:42 CST
