1Gig is not enough. We ran just fine with 1536M (1.5Gig). Do you have the doc from Oracle with the changes to the kernel parms? Their doc jumps around a bit. You can miss the fact that you need more memory and can miss the kernal specs as well.
Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance wrote: > Hi, > We have over this last week eventually managed to install Oracle 9i under > SLES8 (31 bit) which is running under VM 4.4 > to evaluate. One of the main issues we encountered was the Oracle > installer just seemed to go to sleep and appeared to > be a VM resource issue. The VM machine userid was defined with 1024M of > storage and at the time the swap disk > was defined as a V-DISK 60000 blks. After some investigation I defined in > the vm machine userid OPTION QUICKDSP > which resolved the issue of the installer going to sleep. The size of the > swap disk turns out to be about 30m using the linux > "free" cmd which we thought was too small to say the least. Looking at the > VM manual it appears that you can set the > V-DISK size up to 4194296 blocks but I cannot get any where near that size. > The max I seem to be able to define is > "MDISK 203 FB-512 V-DISK 1900000 WV". Has anyone got any comments on what > would be a reasonable size for > memory / swap allocation for running Oracle 9i ? Our DBA's would like to > create a production sized database to > stress test to see how it performs etc as they only have used Oracle on an > intel platform. > > Thanks in advance.... > > Graeme > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
