Oracle Linking Errors

[Alex Knoll]

I have installed Oracle Enterprise Server 8.1.6 (64-bit) on HP-UX 11. I am experiencing "Out of memory" errors while trying to link the ORACLE executable. I have 2GB of RAM and swap of 2GB. However, my concern is that /tmp, at only 60MB, is too small. If anyone would verify that /tmp is the problem, I would be very appreciative.

[Andy Monks]

you probably haven't changed the kernel parameters maxdsiz or maxdsiz_64bit.

As the C compiler it's self is 32bit, you'll probably need to change maxdsiz

[Alex Knoll]

The two parameters in question are:
maxdsiz 67108864
maxdsiz_64bit 1073741824

Are these sizes too small?

Thanks

[CHRIS ANORUO]

Hi Alex,

The problem is your shared memory kernel configuration values are low. See attached sample of my kernel parameters for a K580 running HPUX 10.20.
/tmp is not the problem, anyway you can still increase it to 100mb as follows:
1.Do bdf to get filesystem for /tmp.
2.Boot to single user mode through ISL
3.lvextend -L 100 /dev/vg00/lvoln (for /tmp)
4.extendfs -F vxfs /dev/vg00/lvoln
5.Reboot
6. Reconfigure the kernel with increased values.


Cheers!

[CHRIS ANORUO]

Alex,

Increase maxdsiz to 1Gb and look at the attached kernel parameters above.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

I have also faced same problem when I installed Oracle 8.1.6 32 Bit on HP-UX 64Bit.

That time bdf showed /tmp dir 100% used and also Oracle Home mount point 100% used. I was haveing my /tmp directory of size 100MB.

I contaced Oracle support and they told me to include some environment variables like TMPDIR , TMP_DIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ORACLE_BASE. After that, the installation was successful.

I hope this will may help you also. Please check all environment settings of Oracle user.

Oracle also recommends swap area of 2 to 3 times of you servers RAM and /tmp directory of at least 200MB or more.


Thanks,

[Alex Knoll]

Thanks to all for your suggestions. It seems that the bumping up of the shared memory kernal parameters did the trick.

Thanks again!