Also, this link may be useful: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1459/fsswap-31555.html On 10/21/13 1:34 PM, "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Sandy, > >Swap messages are definitely bad. The server should *not* be swapping. > >I have some concerns about a server that has 128G of RAM, and only 8GB of >swap. (Oracle recommended swap space for a system w/ more than 16GB of >RAM is 16GB of swap.) > >Also, how many instances are running on this server? How much total SGA >is allocated? > >Is ISM (Intimate Shared Memory) or DISM (Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory) >being used? > >-Mark > > >On 10/21/13 1:08 PM, "Sandra Becker" <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Solaris 5.10, 128G RAM, 8G swap >>Oracle EE 11.2.0.2 >>We've been getting the ORA-04030 errors several times a week since they >>did >>an OS patch in August. The SE team says there isn't anything wrong with >>the server or configuration on their side, although they do see some swap >>messages in their logs. Other than the OOM errors, we don't see any >>issues >>in the database. >> >>What should we be looking at/for to determine the cause? The databases >>and >>server they are running on have been in place for at least of couple of >>years. Does anyone know of memory issues with this version of Solaris? >> >>Thanks in advance for any suggestions or ideas. >>-- >>Sandy >>Transzap, Inc. >> >> >>-- >>//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l