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ORA-27102: Out Of Memory And SVR4 Error: 22: Invalid argument During Startup On Solaris10 Server With Multiple DB Instances (Doc ID 779861.1)

Last updated on MAY 26, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86 (32-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

The following error is reported while starting up the database on Solaris 10:

 

Total physical memory installed on the server is greater than sum of all the SGAs.

'project.max-shm-memory' parameter is being used to control the shared memory size.

Changes

The parameter SGA_TARGET was increased, e.g.

SQL> alter system set sga_target = 4G scope=spfile;
System altered.

Cause

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