Re: Can I allocate more memory to db_block_buffer?

Hi,

check your kernel settings (shmmax, shmmni, shmseg, etc.)

regards
Hartmut

"Rafal Jank" <yankee_at_wp-sa.pl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3C109ABB.D680F195_at_wp-sa.pl...
> Hello,
> I have Oracle 8.1.6.2 on Linux.
> The host has 2 GB RAM,as you can see:
> >free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2009368 1967188 42180 1888584 312100 788552
> -/+ buffers/cache: 866536 1142832
> Swap: 1052248 76 1052172
> (oracle_at_i138)
> I have 512MB of memory allocated to db_block_buffers and when I tried to
> increase this value even slightly (to 612MB) the instance didn't start,
saying
> that it can't allocate shared memory. Why? There should be enough of it on
this
> host.
> TIA
> Rafal
Received on Fri Dec 07 2001 - 04:53:53 CST