The problem was configuring shmmax, shmmin , shmseg etc in the /etc/system
file for Oracle as specified in the doc. Once I did that and rebooted the
unix server and tried the install again it worked.
Thanks for your help
--
Ravi Alluru
mailto:ravica_at_quixnet.net
"Knut Talman" <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de> wrote in message
news:3B1EDF8D.31717820_at_mytoys.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<sid>.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" <ravica_at_quixnet.net> 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
>
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Received on Thu Jun 07 2001 - 16:12:58 CDT
