Do you have sufficient amount of processes available on the box (NPROC parameter in SAM)? Swap can be added, and as far as I can remeber, HP-UX has mkswap command that will create a swap file of certain size. It's very hard to help you out without actually seeing the messages. Can you execute "dmesg" and post the result? On 04/16/2004 11:51:59 AM, Chris Stephens wrote: > Earlier this week I attempted to install 9i on a production HP server = > (after > doing this a number of times elsewhere). The installer initially = > wasn't > able to launch due to lack of tmp space. So I got the sys admin to = > clean From what I read so far, you may not want to kill Bill, but you may want to get rid of your SA, by firing him or by firing at him. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------