Hi, The Solaris projects settings are not all that are required, you still need to set-up values in the /etc/system file, check out the quick install guide. I remember that wre also issues when a reboot occurs and the project settings not being applied properly. Regards Pete On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:47 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 > -- Regards Pete -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l