lowering memory demands

From: Dolommite <dolommite_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 04:24:35 GMT
Message-ID: <MPG.143de38552b28112989699@news.earthlink.net>

I started my initial DB on my Sol8 machine, and got the following msgs * (8i):

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SVRMGR>
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area                        211660708 bytes
Fixed Size                                          94116 bytes
Variable Size                                    79740928 bytes
Database Buffers                                131645440 bytes
Redo Buffers                                       180224 bytes

Database mounted.
Database opened.

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I've only got .5gb in this machine, now it's about gone already. Any type of access to the db and it starts paging. How can I lower this? I know this is a pretty academic q for most of you - so my apologies in advance.

Greg Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 23:24:35 CDT