Nuno Here is the Swap Info. One thing is true that SHMALL is small how the swap space can affect it. Appreciate your comments cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/system_vg-swap_lv partition 25165816 0 -1 Sanjay ________________________________ From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 6:23:37 AM Subject: Re: SGA bigger than 50G Sanjay Mishra wrote,on my timestamp of 5/05/2010 12:31 PM: > Yes it is failing with error like > ORA-27102: out of memory > Linux-x86_64 Error: 28: No space left on device > > :/proc/sys/kernel$cat shmmax > 48318382080 > I tried with > sga_target=38624M > sga_max_size=38624M Is your pagefile/swap partition < 38GB by any chance? -- Cheers Nuno Souto in cold Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l