Out Of Memory

[Richard R. Sivernell]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:29:04 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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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> Lonni J Friedman				netllama at linux-sxs.org
> Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo		     http://netllama.ipfox.com


  After all of that, what size database are you creating on a 18 gig
hd. Are you ofs compliant? How about permissions?

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Rick Sivernell
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