Flavio Fonseca
Hello all,
I have a proliant server with 4 GB RAM and a 3GHz processor. I am using suse 9.2 professional and installing oracle 9i on it.
Note that this setup is neither supported by Oracle nor Novell/SUSE - nor is Oracle tested at all on 9.2. If you use it seriously, you should get SLES9.
But when a look at free results just after booting the server with no larg program running:
babao:~ # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4042056 4024008 18048 0 4920 35636 -/+ buffers/cache: 3983452 58604 Swap: 2104472 6068 2098404
almost all memory is allocated. I have just updated the system and it didn't change. I noticed that when I start a program like oracles dbca (assistent to create database) the machine almost dies running like a slower than my workstation.
I also had a problem installing suse 9.2. It didn't started with 4GB of ram. I reduced to 2GB and the installation went fine. After a online update I could install the rest of the RAM. but now I noticed this problem and the machine is too sloow for a server.
You should check where the memory has gone, this does not look normal. Run top and sort by memory to see which processes use it. Have you enabled shared memory? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126