Optimum RAM for Solaris 10 on Ultra 40M2

I currently have 4GB on this Ultra 40M2 running Solaris 10 5/08 but wonder if I should get 8GB. I don't really have any problems with the current setup.

morgair suggested:
" +If you are going to invest in an IDE you can get a decent one with 200+ GB for about 60 to 70 dollars.+ "
That's all fine and good, but your Ultra 10's onboard IDE controller is not 48bit capable.
It wil not recognize more than 137GB of such a drive.
http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
For internal disks in such a system
(designed in 1997, first shipped in 1998 and EOL'd in 2002)
I suggest you stay with 120GB or smaller drives.
Additionally, if the OBP is down-rev,
you'll have problems having it recognizing drives of "today's" sizes.
Consider:
Install a core Solaris 10 to the 8GB disk.
Get something+ functional.
Update the OBP from that OS environment.
Then replace the disk with something larger
and reinstall to whatever you want to do.
You could take the 8GB and slave it as a data disk in some PeeCee, somewhere.

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I am sorry to ask rather stupid question.
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I found 8GB memory reported as free. It is production box. It is heavy loaded.
I guess Kernel parameter settings for Oracle set too low.
I reported DBA and asked DBA to improve.
My DBA said Oracle 32 bit version was installed and Oracle 32bit can't access more than 4GB system memory.
Is it true that Oracle 9.2.0 32bit for Solaris can not access more than 4GB memory?
32bit CPU and 32bit OS might have problem in access big memory.
But I never heard Oracle 9 running on 64bit Solaris box can not access more than 4GB.
Specially on Sparc 64bit chip and Solaris 9 64bit version.
I searched forums and could not find good answer. I believe it is rather obvious.
Please help me on this. I will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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I was really surprised by the fact that almighty
ORACLE can not access 4GB memory.
So, it is true that 32bit Oracle is limited by 4GB RAM.Nope. 32bit almighty anything is limited to (max) 2^32 virtual adresses on a vmm system.
Often there is also some split where memory is divided into system and user areas, where user (program) has e.g. 2 or 3GB. All this works regardless of amount of RAM available 0.5 or 512GB.
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yakub21 wrote:
I have a solaris server with 16gb of RAM that will subsequently be zoned into three zones to support three separate database instances, one for each zone. Given that physically there is only 16Gb of ram, It is my understanding and experience that I should have 1.5-2 * 4Gb should be at least 6Gb of SWAP per Local Zone.
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- 1.5GB for zfs arc cahce if your useing ZFS.
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In order that you can use more virtual memoy than you have physical memory for your will porably want to add a swap file, and for a 16GB machine this would probably be 4 / 8 or perhaps up to 16GB depending if would will occasionally have higher virutal memory demands or if poeple but big files in /tmp. In general swap -s can be used to monitor a shortage, though it can foolled if zfs_arc_cache is not limited.
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Zip -E for Solaris 10?

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I have a need for what I think is an older version of info-zip that used to have the -E (capital E) option that would encrypt the file but it could be scripted unlike the current zip -e which will prompt you to enter a password twice and cannot be easily scripted. I need the -E version so code changes don't need to be made in production.
I can't seem to find this version of zip (source or binary) anywhere. Does anyone have any idea what happened to this option or where I might find the old source that contained this option?
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Hi.
Zip for Solaris 8 don't know -E.
# zip -h
Copyright (C) 1990-1997 Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly,
Onno van der Linden and Kai Uwe Rommel.
Type 'zip -L' for the software License.
Zip 2.2 (November 3rd 1997). Usage:
zip [-options] [-b path] [-t mmddyyyy] [-n suffixes] [zipfile list] [-xi list]
The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which
can include the special name - to compress standard input.
If zipfile and list are omitted, zip compresses stdin to stdout.
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-d   delete entries in zipfile    -m   move into zipfile (delete files)
-R   recurse into directories     -j   junk (don't record) directory names
-0   store only                   -l   convert LF to CR LF (-ll CR LF to LF)
-1   compress faster              -9   compress better
-q   quiet operation              -v   verbose operation/print version info
-c   add one-line comments        -z   add zipfile comment
-@   read names from stdin        -o   make zipfile as old as latest entry
-x   exclude the following names -i   include only the following names
-F   fix zipfile (-FF try harder) -D   do not add directory entries
-A   adjust self-extracting exe   -J   junk zipfile prefix (unzipsfx)
-T   test zipfile integrity       -X   eXclude eXtra file attributes
-y   store symbolic links as the link instead of the referenced file
-h   show this help               -n   don't compress these suffixes
# zip -E
zip error: Invalid command arguments (no such option: E)
# uname -a
SunOS XXXX 5.8 Generic_117350-34 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
#Solaris binary compatible with previos version. So you can try just copy old zip to Solaris 10.
Regards.
Edited by: Nik on 12.04.2011 12:32

Prgraming for Solaris - Basic Question

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I am very new to Unix and Solaris and have some questions I hope some one maybe able to help with.
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New Bios for the KT4 Ultra bfisr mobo

Hello all!
This is the first post for me in this forum, and i want to ask you guys if they fixed the new 1.4 bios and temp reading for the KT4 ultra motherboard?
Currently i am running bios 1.3 but like to stay uppdated hardware wise.
Would you guys recommend flashing to this new bios?
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Sound like ram is struggling (decompress to ram fails).
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Are there suggestions for managing Multiple VMWare Fusion systems sharing files with a MacBook? Suppose I have enough ram for 3 servers to share files.

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ORACLE CLIENT 9.2.0.6.0 for Solaris

I need to download ORACLE CLIENT 9.2.0.6.0 for solaris. I could not locate the link online.
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How can i allocate more RAM for my onboard video card on a 2011 macbook pro 13 inch running windows 7 via bootcamp

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Can't download Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition for Solaris 32 bit??

I can't download Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition for Solaris 32 bit. After filling out the form with the questions...I click on the actual link, but the box never pops up. The status bar on my Internet Explorer slowly increases, but never allows me to download. It just hangs. I have tried multiple times, and I can download other verions from your site...and have many times in the past. Could you please fix this. Thanks.

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No Disk meet the criteria for Solaris installation

Hi all, I have a problem when trying to install Solaris 8 (Intel) on my PC. There are some funny things happened while installing the OS.
1.) My motherboard does not support booting from CD-ROM, so I downloaded a Device Assistant Boot Disk to boot it up. Then I use dd.exe to make the boot disk from the image, I have tried many times that after creating the boot disk, this boot disk will contain 512 bytes of bad sector. So why?
2.) After using this boot disk to boot up and install the OS, before entering to the detection of the bus type stuff (still on the white screen), at the bottom of the screen, it says "ata_command select failed ... ...", what does this mean?
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I have a linksys -G type router and my computer uses a Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter with SpeedBooster
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