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在linux 和firewire上创建自己的rac 集群（Create your own RAC cluster on Linux and FireWire） Insufficient switching capacity during installation causes Oracle Universal Installer to hang up or crash To check the memory / exchange capacity you have allocated, you can type in: # free - or- # cat /proc/swaps - or- Cat /proc/meminfo grep MemTotal # If your memory is less than 512MB (between RAM and SWAP), you can add temporary swap space by creating temporary swap files. In this way, you dont have to use the original device or even rebuild it more thoroughly. Create a file that is used as an additional swap space as an root, assuming the size is 300MB: # DD if=/dev/zero of=tempswap bs=1k count=300000 Now we should change the permissions of the file: # Chmod 600 tempswap Finally, we format the partition as an exchange partition and add it to the swap space: # mke2fs tempswap # mkswap tempswap # swapon tempswap Set shared memory Shared memory allows the process to access them by placing generic structures and data in the shared memory segment. This is the fastest form of inter process communication (IPC) - mainly because data does not involve kernel operations when data is passed between processes. There is no need to copy data between processes. Oracle uses shared memory for its system wide area (SGA), a memory area shared by all Oracle backup processes and foreground processes. Allocating sufficient capacity for SGA is important for the performance of Oracle because it is responsible for saving database buffers, caching, shared SQL, access paths, and more. To determine the limits of all shared memory, use the following command: # IPCs -lm Shared - Memory - Limits Max, number, of, segments = 4096 Max, SEG, size (Kbytes) = 32768 Max, total, shared, memory (Kbytes) = 8388608 Min, SEG, size (bytes) = 1 Set SHMMAX The SHMMAX parameter defines the maximum size (in bytes) of the shared memory segment. Oracle SGA contains shared memory, and incorrect setting of SHMMAX may limit the size of