=> Check the number of Huge Pages configured on the server [oracle@sitdb ~]$ grep -i huge /etc/sysctl.conf vm.nr_hugepages=3495 [oracle@sitdb ~]$ [root@sitdb ~]# grep HugePages /proc/meminfo AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 3495 HugePages_Free: 169 HugePages_Rsvd: 4 HugePages_Surp: 0 [root@sitdb ~]# Which means there are 3495 Huge Pages configured on the server and each page is of size 2 MB or 2048 KB. This will consume 3495 * 2048 KB of RAM memory or 6990 MB of RAM => The parameter USE_LARGE_PAGES in the database if set to ONLY then the SGA's of all databases and ASM in the server put together should be maximum of 6990 MB. If the SGA exceeds this number for example if SGA is set to 13G then database would not start as the huge pages are not available on the server. In this scenario, to i...
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