Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 45
Troubleshooting
Table 1-8 provides recommended actions for problems that you may encounter while deploying
and using your Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle software.
Table 1-8. Troubleshooting
Category Problem / Symptom Cause Recommended Corrective Action
Performance
and stability
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux exhibiting
poor performance
and instability.
Excessive use of
swap space.
The Oracle System Global
Area (SGA) exceeds the
recommended size.
• Ensure that the SGA size does not
exceed 65% of total system RAM.
•Type
free at a command prompt to
determine total RAM and reduce the
values of db_cache_size and
shared_pool_size parameters in the
Oracle parameter file accordingly.