A reminder that this is Oracle XE Install instruction s used are http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18802/toc.htm#BABCCEGF John Dunn Product Consultant Sefas Innovation Limited. Tel: + 44 (0) 117 910 0529 www.sefas.com<http://www.sefas.com/> From: Hans Forbrich [mailto:fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 12 March 2014 13:09 To: John Dunn Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle-xe memory issues on linux Did you 'activate' that using 'sysctl -p' (as root)? (You can verify using cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax for kernel.shmmax setting, and similar for others) Did you start the database as oracle? (Is this perhaps in the init scripts?) /Hans On 12/03/2014 6:51 AM, John Dunn wrote: This is what I have : # Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes kernel.shmmax = 68719476736 # Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages kernel.shmall = 4294967296 ########### # Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Recommended Values kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 6815744 ########