SUMMARY: oracle - mem upgrade and OS update, just checking here first.

From: Broun, Bevan <brounb_at_adi-limited.com>
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 17:41:26 EST
Thanks to: 
"Elaine ." <cmap_sec@yahoo.co.uk>
"Beavers, Reginald" <RBeavers@seisint.com>
Mike O <ora7dba@yahoo.com>
Alan Pae <turonaeda@yahoo.com>
"Lynch, Julie K" <jklynch@sandia.gov>

most people said just make a backup of /etc/system and check afterwards.

Julie Lynch said
<quote>
You should notate the values of the shared memory and semaphores.  If the
upgrade resets these values to something lower than what they are right
now, it is a good possibility the database(s) will crash.  Hopefully your
DBA will be around when you do these hardware/OS upgrades.
</quote>

Thanks all

BB


on Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:40:05PM +1100, Broun, Bevan <brounb@adi-limited.com> wrote:
> I have oracle 9 installed on a dual CPU E420 running solaris 8. I need to
> upgrade the OS from flat 8 to 8/02. I also need to upgrade the memory from
> 1GB to 2GB. Does anyone here see any possible problems?
> 
> I worried about kernel parameters set by oracle during the install (which I
> didnt do, Ive never done an oracle install) being dependant on memory size
> and possibly being wiped out by the upgrade install.
> 
> TIA
> 
> BB
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