Out Of Memory

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] patrick Kapturkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> What happens ?
> Compaq Proliant ML370 G2 with HD 18 Gb, 256 Mb memory,
>
> RedHat 7.1, Oracle 8i, 512 Mb swap, JDK 1.1.8v3

hehehehehe...good old rh-7.1 with oracle no less.  this has been the bane
of my existence at work for the past month or so.

> The command dbassist based on jre freezes during the
> database creation on 1% value.
> with free or sar, I can see the occupied memory
> growing until 100%, then swap growing until 100%. At
> last, The processus jre is killed by system.
> Any idea ?

yes, a few:
1) Oracle-8i is *NOT* qualified on anything after RH-6.2.  Trying to run
it on RH-7.1 will expectedly result in failure.  I'm surprised you even
got it to install cleanly.
2) the default kernel that comes with RH-7.1 is 2.4.2.   not only is this
kernel ancient, but its *extremely* buggy, and does a horrid job managing
memory.  RH provides a 2.4.9 kernel for RH-7.1 as an upgrade.  i'd
strongly urge you to use it, if you're not already.
3) *ONLY* Oracle-9iR1 is qualified by Oracle to run on RH-7.1, and it
requires that you upgrade binutils in order to get all the libraries to
properly build during the oracle install process.  Don't even bother
trying to install 9i unless you upgrade binutils first.

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