Devel kernels, no shm_hugetlb_group and recommended way to run Oracle 10g?

[RChan]

Sorry for the noise - I had missed the mlock patch to hugetlbfs/inode.c .

RChan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Before taking the plunge and trying Oracle 10g on devel kernels -
> I have been browsing the Oracle forums.
>
> In upstream kernels there is a shm_hugetlb_group sysctl to allow
> non-suid Oracle processes to do their thing (otherwise complaints
> about not being able to get a shared memory segment).
>
> Now devel kernels have the the upstream patch backed out:
>
> #
> # Ugly hugetlb hack; the real solution (rlimits) is added later on
> #
> %patch10 -p1 -R
>
> What do I have to do with rlimit to get Oracle processes to run? Does 
> Oracle
> have to fix the binary first?
>
> Cheers
> richard
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