Re: Problem in installing Oracle8.1.7 on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 7 Aug 2002 17:55:31 -0700
Message-ID: <92eeeff0.0208071655.19441630@posting.google.com>

gaurabg_at_yahoo.com (Gaurab Gupta) wrote in message news:<907ec7e2.0208070454.954c5ee_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install Oracle8i 8.1.7 Enterprise on SCO UnixWare
> 7.1.1 and getting the following error when Installer is run :
>
> $ ./runInstaller
> Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
> ../stage/Components/Oracle.swd.jre/1.1.7/1/DataFiles/Expanded/jre/unixware/bin/jre.Please
> wait..
> mapChunk: mmap failed: Insufficient or invalid memory
> **Out of memory,exiting**.
>
> The machine configuration is :
> PIII 550 Mhz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, UnixWare 7.1.1, 855MB swap.
> Also the kernel parameters have been adjusted as per Oracle
> recommendation and rebuilt but to no avail. The above problem still
> persists.
> Please help.
>
> Thanx & Rgds,
> Gaurab

Generally, these kinds of questions are best answered at Oracle Metalink. From the error however, it seems like you need to add more swap space but this may not be the case since you already have 855MB allocated.

//Rauf Sarwar Received on Wed Aug 07 2002 - 19:55:31 CDT