Re: 9iR2 Database Configuration Assistant fails with ORA-27102 "Out of Memory" error

rroot-news_at_ads.duke.edu (Rick Root) wrote in message news:<c406b85.0208280541.34bc571c_at_posting.google.com>...
> RedHat Linux 7.3 fully patched
> 1GB physical RAM
> 1GB swap
> Oracle 9i Release 2 (9.2.0.1.0)
>
> With a few minor stumbling blocks, I've managed to get Oracle
> installed on the above Linux server but the Database Configuration
> Assistant fails with an ORA-27102 "Out of Memory" error whenever it
> gets to the step of "Creating and starting Oracle instance".
>
> In fact, if I have a shell open with "top" running in it, I can see
> that i'm nowhere near out of memory. Only about 260MB of physical RAM
> is used and no swap space.
>
> I've followed all of the instructions as far as kernel parameters
> found in the Installation Guide *AND* the Release Notes, but just in
> case, here are my values:
>
> SEMMSL 100
> SEMMNS 256 (also tried 400 and the default, 32000)
> SEMOPM 100
> SEMMNI 100 (also tried 600)
> SHMMAX 524288 (half my phsyical memory)

SHMMAX is measured in bytes. So if you have it like you posted here, it's only half a meg. Set it to real half of memory.

> SHMMNI 100
> SHMALL 2097152 (release notes say leave as default)
>
> I've searched many places for the answer to this.. I've only found one
> message that looks like the same problem but no responses to it (in
> comp.database.oracle.server).
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rick Root
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 12:27:31 CDT