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Corona688
If the problem is "not enough memory", the solution is "more memory".
Can I get a reply to what I wrote? What I said in the post you're quoting is that until you
know that you actually need more memory you need to do research, it's not exactly professional to say "Out of memory? Better install more memory, then." Because not all memory use is justified. I also explicitly said that it may come down to instaling more memory, but until you know that, you can't say that.
There could be a memory leak affecting them, there could be something misconfigured in their Oracle install, their specs for the this machine could have been way off, etc. For all we know if the OP slaps more physical memory in there it's just going to eat up that new memory and they're going to be back at square one only this time they have to explain to their boss why the fix they offered didn't actually fix the problem.
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
It's certainly not the answer to every problem, but Oracle isn't small; if they say 4 gigs isn't enough I believe them.
It's not four gigs, I don't know where that number came from, their free output shows 11 gigs physical and 18 gigs swap. A swap that big probably also points to a technical deficit, BTW.