Just a quick question on this, I've tried to run this a couple of times now - first time it failed I increased the swap. I'm not sure that increasing the physical memory will do any good, but will try later today - has anyone seen this or anything similar?
Hmmmm.......no, I haven't come across that problem before.
My first thought would be to check user/process resource limits. There seems to be quite enough swap available to avoid it falling over at 3GB virtual memory (unless the system is otherwise very heavily loaded). We all know that on Solaris, by default, root user is unlimited in resources but some clown might have imposed some limit. I assume that this is not a system installed and configured by you so you don't know the history??
Like you, at this stage of investigation, I wouldn't believe it is an actual memory shortage causing it.
I built the system, I used the text installer and then pulled down the initial repo from the Oracle site - all good and well so far.
I then ran the pkgrecv as follows;
Again all good and well although it took 3days and 18hours down loading almost 140Gb, this was followed by;
This also ran just dandy, can't remember how long it took and was followed by;
You'll notice that we had a 4Gb error which I thought was suspicious, so I increased the swap - no change. I added another 32G memory - no change. I changed the ZFS ARC Cache setting and the 4Gb error became a 3Gb error even with the additional swap and the additional physical memory.
Here is a quick update on this, still not entirely sure what I did to fix this - the only thing that I can think may have resolved the problem was a package index. After that was going to run the upgrade again and an explorer in an other shell to get the required data for Oracle - however the unexpected happened and the repo update worked.
Still not entirely sure what happened, but it all seems to work now.
A little late but just wanting to point out that "swap -l" wasn't the right command to figure out what the virtual memory usage was like on that server.
With non overcommiting OSes like Solaris, you can reach an out of (virtual) memory state despite still having plenty of unused swap and RAM.
You are probably hitting bugs or features of 11.3 new KOM -> kernel object manager.
Ever since 11.3, i leave couple of GB not to be used by zfs (kernel, user_reserve_hint)
Otherwise, once you reach memory pressure, stuff pauses and timeouts badly, effecting entire operating system and services on it.
This is probably related unfortunately and it just doesn't work properly in my opinion.
I'd already been through that loop, had doubled the memory to 64Gb and set the value as follows;
Which should have meant that there was at least 32Gb available, instead of failing at 4Gb - it failed at 3Gb. At that point I decided to call it quits for a little while.
When I had to go back to the problem, the only thing that I'd done with the index was to re-index it this time the command ran and I'm still not certain what I did.
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