Re: Oracle7.34 installation error on sun solaris

On Sat, 29 May 1999 08:07:46 +0200, Sybrand Bakker wrote:
>Hi Venu,
>
>The problem here is that Solaris doesn't have enough shared memory available
>to fit the SGA in.
>On database creation a startup nomount is being issued, this creates the SGA
>in shared memory (as every startup does) and that startup fails.
>I'm no Solaris expert. From other posts is would appear you need to increase
>SHMMAX. Please look into the Solaris doc on how to resize the shared memory.

These parameters can be set in the /etc/system file. Once they are sufficient, your Oracle install won't fail.

>Hth,
>
>Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
>Venu M Middela wrote in message <7imruk$8m_at_portal.gmu.edu>...
>>Hello All,
>> I'm trying to installoracle 7.3.4 on a Sun UltraII 296MHZ processor
>>with 512 MB RAm with a sun 4.2 GB hard drive.
>>when i start the installation procedure, at the point of the creation of
>the database, I get the error Database creation failede. Check log file.when
>i check the log file, the error says
>>
>>
>>ORA-07331:smsnsg: unable to allocate the variable portion of the SGA.
>>Additional information: 4
>>create database "ORCL"
>>*
>>ORA-01034: ORACLE nota available.
>>
>>the variables set in initORCL.ora are
>>sahred_pool_size = 3500000
>>and
>>db_block_buffers=200
>>
>>I've tried increasing the shared pool size and also db_block buffers to
>>5000000 and 500 respectively, but without any success.
>>Then I've also tried to decrease the above variables and tried installing
>>it without any success.
>>Can anyone out there please guide me through this??
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Venu.
>>
>
>

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