Solaris hangs when Oracle SGA is too large

I am an Oracle DBA with preconfigured Solaris servers. Our Unix admin is outsourced so we don't have a lot of good support here. When I set the instance SGA too large the server hangs and requires a hard reboot It seems that the error is due to insufficient memory or swap. Is this normal behaviour for Solaris 10? Shouldn't the process abend before the server does?

I've managed to duplicate this behavour on two seperate boxes. The first server is quite small only 1G physical memory and the SGA target was set too high. Additionally Oracle was competing with other resources on this box. Still it was surprising to me that the server actually hung. I would have expected to get something like "shared memory realm does not exists" if there was not enough memory.
The second box has 8G physical memory and 4G swap. I set up the oracle /etc/project parameters for this one, here are the kernel settings:
shminfo_shmmni = 256
seminfo_semmni = 128
shminfo_shmmax = 4G
seminfo_semmsl = 256
In this case Solaris hung when I started the database with a 4G MAX_SGA_SIZE, I don't think SGA_TARGET was set. I think the server ran out of swap but I'm still confused because it seems like physical memory should have been available. Also I don't understand why the Oracle instance would have even been using swap because Oracle locks physical memory using ISM or DISM.
In both case the OS hung and could only be revived with a hard reboot.

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I've been having an error with an Oracle 9.2.0.7 installation where the server will hang to the point where it needs to be powered off as it is completely unresponsive. It hangs when I start the Oracle service.
I've tried installing the system from scratch a few times(OS, OS patches, Oracle 9.2, Oracle 9.2.0.7 Patch set, Database) a few times however I keep having this same issue issue. I had the system running properly up until yesterday and I thought the issue was SP2 for Windows 2003 as I didn't patch the OS before installing everything however it is happening again now.
The listener is started and I can't even connect to an Idle instance through SQLPlus when this happens. I just get a TNS Listener error which I will list below. SInce this keeps happening, I'm wondering if it may be a hardware issue (Installed on an HP ML350) but I'm also wondering if it may be SP2 for WIndows 2003 server and was wondering if anyone else has seen this issue. I havne't found anything in the forum nor on Google so I thought I'd post here.
Here are the last entries in the DB log when it hangs;
ARC1: Archival started
Mon Mar 10 14:18:59 2008
ARCH: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES COMPLETE
Mon Mar 10 14:18:59 2008
ARC0: Becoming the 'no FAL' ARCH
Mon Mar 10 14:18:59 2008
ARC1: Becoming the heartbeat ARCH
Mon Mar 10 14:18:59 2008
ARC0: Becoming the 'no FAL' ARCHARC0: Thread not mounted
Mon Mar 10 14:18:59 2008
ARC1: Becoming the heartbeat ARCHARC1: Thread not mounted
Mon Mar 10 14:19:00 2008
Oracle Data Guard is not available in this edition of Oracle.
Mon Mar 10 14:19:00 2008
alter database mount exclusive

Hi,
Since the server locks up when the service is starting, it's hard to determine how high it gets but after it starts, it quickly gets up to around 277MB and just stays there.
I was thinking it may be a memory issue as well as it displays the symptoms of a "light speed" memory leak. I had 4GB of memory in the server and realized that WIndows 2003 only saw 3.5GB so I decided to remove 1 GB but that didn't make a difference.
How would I go about ensuring that the memory consumption on my DB server does not get swapped much?

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