Re: Urgent: Create Barebone 10g DB on a minimum RAM on a server?

lazyboy_2k_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to create a 10g db on my ultra 10 machine which only has
> 640MB physical RAM & 20GB diskspace. According to 10g training info, I
> meet the minimum requirement. Here is the requirement that I got:
>
> Memory requirements: 512 MB physical RAM
> Disk space: 1 GB swap (or twice the RAM)
> 400 MB of /tmp
> 1.5 - 3.5 GB Oracle software
> 1.2 for preconfigured database
>
> However I configure my db using dbca utility, I get this error:
>
> ORA-04031: unable to allocate 64 bytes of shared memory ("shared
> pool", "unknown object", "sga heap (1,0)", "SYSTEM
> PARAMETERS")
>
> ORA-01-34: ORACLE not available
>
> I'm wondering that is there a way to configure a barebone db for 10g or
> even 8 or 9i? What is a correct SGA & PGA memory number which will
> allow me to create db on my 640MB physical RAM machine? Any
> helps/suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Btw, this is for testing purposes, and all I need is to have a db for
> some other testings.
>
> TIA,
> -Chris

Did you follow the os setup instructions for oracle and configure the shared memory so that oracle can allocate?

It varies based on what solaris release you are running. Received on Fri Dec 15 2006 - 18:36:10 CST