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Tips and Techniques: Install and Configure Oracle9i on Red Hat Linux
Advanced Server
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW........................................................................... 3
TERMINOLOGY............................................................................................ 3
INSTALLATION OF RED HAT ADVANCED SERVER 2.1 ............. 4
Installation steps for Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1................................ 4
Install Tips for Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1.......................................... 7
TIPS FOR ORACLE9I R2 INSTALL.......................................................... 8
Relink issues during Oracle9i R1 database install .................................... 8
Cannot install using CDROM..................................................................... 9
Sun JDK - Oracle9i R2 and Advanced Server 2.1 ................................... 9
Creating SGA of more than 8 GB, using bigpages and shmfs .............. 9
Database creation failure ........................................................................... 10
ORACLE DATABASE INSTALL.............................................................. 10
TUNING OF RED HAT ADVANCED SERVER FOR ORACLE.... 12
Swap:............................................................................................................. 12
File handles: ................................................................................................. 12
Shared memory: .......................................................................................... 12
Shared memory file system on /dev/shm (shmfs): ............................... 13
Lower mapped base:................................................................................... 13
VLM_WINDOW_SIZE ........................................................................... 14
Bigpages........................................................................................................ 14
Sockets and Processes................................................................................ 14
Semaphore ................................................................................................... 15
Asynchronous I/O ..................................................................................... 15
DNS options................................................................................................ 15
MONITORING ............................................................................................. 16
DEBUGGING AND TRACING............................................................... 16
Magic sysrq keys.......................................................................................... 17
Serial Console.............................................................................................. 18
Netdump utility ........................................................................................... 18
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................. 18
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