Hi, 8k is the default page size for Solaris 10 (and 11 i think) and Linux is 4k but since nobody here is trying to use hupepages (2GB as example in Solaris) that does make much sense. You can check pagesize -a to see the availability of pagesize in Solaris. Did you already verified ulimit and project settings for oracle user (shared memory?) Apart from that i have no more value to add at this point :-) Luis Marques http://lcmarques.com On Jan 16, 2013, at 10:17 PM, "CRISLER, JON A" <JC1706@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't work on Solaris that much, but on Linux this would be mapped against > /dev/shm- if /dev/shm was only set to less than 20gb you would run into odd > errors. Also, are you trying to mix hugepages and ASMM together? Perhaps > there is a limit and its not allowing enough hugepages to be allocated. In > linux you cannot mix hugepages and /dev/shm together but I think you can in > Solaris. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of De DBA > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:01 PM > To: Oracle Discussion List > Subject: Re: Strange error when resizing MEMORY_TARGET > > Thanks Han. > > Unfortunately that did not work. I set all targets to the exact value that > they currently occupy, i.e.: > > shared pool = 1280M > large pool = 128M > streams pool = 128M > java pool = 256M > > pga_aggregate_target = 2496M > sga_target = 4672M > db_cache_size = 2752M > > Setting memory_target to 16G and even to 20G ( i.e. memory_max_target) still > gives the same error "ORA-00846: could not shrink MEMORY_TARGET to specified > value" :( > > Cheers, > Tony > > On 16/01/13 11:16 AM, Xie, Han wrote: >> Hi Tony, >> >> Oracle normally gives all new memory to default buffer cache, then >> dynamically adjust other components later. >> >> What is your shared_pool_size parameter value please? Is it possible that >> shared_pool has grown, now oracle wants/needs to shrink it back to its >> parameter size first before add new memory? >> >> My 2 cents. >> >> Cheers, >> Han >> > <snip due to overquoting> > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l