On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:42 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > Hi John, > On 22/07/10 19:56, JohnS wrote: > > Try about 69Gbytes& What are you fiddling with? limits.conf? > I think you read my mail too quickly and wrote a reply in similar speed. > :) So did I read the original post too quickly and didn't realise he was > complaining about the memory hole... > > You're right to say PAE goes to 64GB although in the past various > distros had kernels compiled for different max addresses for various > reasons. > 4GB address space still applies to 32 bit apps. To use more than 4GB > tricks as such > (http://www.puschitz.com/TuningLinuxForOracle.shtml#ConfiguringVeryLargeMemory) > need to be used. :) > I haven't had to use these kinds of tricks for years since every machine > I encounter has 64 bits and Oracle runs nicely on them perfectly happily. > > I miss reading through Puschitz's tips & tricks. Lately all Oracle > versions run pretty much out of the box on CentOS/Upstream. No sense of > satisfaction from seeing it running after battling with it for hours. :) > _--- LOL yea 64 is correct. I said 69. See my post earlier... John