Re: Why do I get out of memory errors when 10GB memory is free?
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:53:33 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <2451aa69-090f-4bfc-8356-0873bac831d8_at_s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 15, 5:26 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
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> In addition to what Mladen said, note there are several different ways
> of allocating swap on hp-ux - even using memory. Since the notion
> that swap will rarely actually be used is correct (barring extreme
> configuration blunders), you might consider some filesystem based swap
> on a lesser used device, if that makes sense for your configuration
> (for example, if you have an extra unused internal drive). Modern
> unix are less picky about swap than in the olden days, but it's still
> an issue, basic enough that not doing it really is incompetent admin.
There just is not any viable choice an oracle dba running in a unix/ linux environment has to accept the responsibility and verify all the basic stuff. You just cannot count on a system admin ... there are some good ones ... an oracle dba has to pick up this challenge even if they do not want to.
> I told you to check swap back in May.http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle.server/browse_th...
So you did ... I did not remember that incident.
Hard to believe that someone was struggling with basic config for more than 2 months ... well I guess easy to believe ... but sad. Received on Wed Jul 15 2009 - 16:53:33 CDT