Hi Sidi: This is a bug. Refer to Document ID: *435464.1* Kernel Bug Tesing Results: Oracle Bug 6484906: project.max-shm-memory needs to be set to: (4/5 or 3/4)*Available RAM 64G Systems need to have the parameter set to 48G Document *ID : 435464.1 * Ram Srinivasan ==================== On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:47 AM, mek s <sidi.bouzid.meknessy@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi Experts, > > I am tryning to create a database using scripts in Solaris Intel 64 bit; > > The *CreateDB.sql* script failed with; > > *SQL> startup nomount pfile="/u01/app/oracle/admin/db/scripts/init.ora"; > ORA-27102: out of memory > Solaris-AMD64 Error: 22: Invalid argument* > > I have a server with *16G *of memory and in init.ora file I have set the > folowing; > *... > sga_target=8g > pga_aggregate_target=1g > ...* > > and; > > -bash-3.00$ cat /etc/project > system:0:::: > user.root:1:::: > noproject:2:::: > default:3:::: > group.staff:10:::: > > user.oracle:100::oracle::process.max-sem-nsems=(priv,2048,deny);project.max-sem-ids=(priv,4000,deny);project.max-shm-ids=(priv,32768,deny);project.max-shm-memory=(priv, > 8589934592,deny) > -bash-3.00$ > > Why I have this error? Appreciate your help > -- Sincerely Ram Srinivasan