I did it and is working perfectly well. My configuration : Not Using AMM with ASM and database /etc/sysctl.conf : vm.nr_hugepages= 12288 -- page size 2MB => 24 GBvm.hugetlb_shm_group=1300 --id dba, be careful if it's a different user between ASM and Database
kernel.shmmax=25769803776 -- => 24 GB kernel.shmall=6291456 -- page size 4KB =>24 GB /etc/security/limits.conf : memlock=25165824 -- KB => 24 GB /etc/profile ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 -l 25165824 To check you are using Huge Page grep Huge /proc/meminfo I hope it 'will help. Thierry. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l