Export on Red Hat 7.1 Oracle 8.1.7.2

Question

I've been trying to export my oracle databases that I have on our linux machines. I have 2 oracle dbs on a linux machine with 2 cpus. 2 gig ram and 4 gig swap. I can run a full export at night when no one else is on the system but when I try to run an export during the day it just stops. And only 5 ppl or so are on the system at the time testing the programs. I've tried asking oracle but they haven't responded to me in over a week. I run the following command to export, which I would like to emphasize does work at night.
cat /archive/exp_prod.dmp | compress > /archive/exp_full.dmp.Z &
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp sys/'password' buffer=5000000 direct=y log=/archive/exp_full.out file=/archive/exp_prod.dmp full=y
As you can see I pipe the export through a file to compress it. Once it stops it never starts again. I've let it go for over 24hrs and nothing. It doesn't always stop at the same table. The actaul compress process after it stops is still taking 98% of cpu time but no more information is being sent through the pipe file and the export never gets off of the table it froze on. Now since it has worked before with no one else on the system I must believe it is a memory issue or parameter not set correctly with linux. What can I look at to help solve this problem?

Answer 1

I could not get back to this discussion group before. I apolagize
for that, but as I mentioned in the previous message my problem
is a linking one:
I have follow the step metioned in several discussions in this
group, namely:
I have installed the compatibility libraries:
compat-glibc
compat-egcs
compat-libs
Set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL= 2.2.5
run the environment script ./usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386
...-en.sh
The runinstaller program run ok has metioned previously but it
gives me errors during linking:
After copying the necessary files and all that initial
instalation work the linking phase runs smootly, it even link
correctly several Oracle tools like Oracle intermedia, Oracle
net8 client, and so on.
When the Oracle 8i server linking the problems start.
All errors are like this:
-> Error invoking target install of makefile
And the afected makefiles are numerous:
/OraHome1/network/lib/ins_net_server.mk
/OraHome1/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk
/OraHome1/ldap/lib/ins_ldap.mk
/OraHome1/odg/lib/ins_odg.mk
/OraHome1/ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk
Yes, the famous ctx is also giving me problems.
Moreover:The mentiones target .c files refered to in the makefile
script are all in their places!
I do not know what is happenig in this instalation.
Any clue?
Best regards,
Pedro
Note:
I also tried to cover for the ld and gcc linker and compiler to
make sure they are the right version as is mentioned in another
thread... same thing!