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First we need to check (and possibly modify) some system parameters.
Check how much memory you have:
$ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
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If you have more than 500,000 kB (i.e., about 500MB) then all should
be good. If you have less memory, you should still be able to install
and run Oracle, but make sure you have enough swap space. Hans Schou
reports running on a 800MHz, 256MB RAM laptop under Mandrake
GNU/Linux. In general though, to improve the performance of your
machine, a memory upgrade is always a good start! You can check the
amount of swap space you have with:
$ grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
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Anything more than 1,000,000 kB (i.e., about 1GB) is
good. If you have less, make your swap partition bigger or else add
some more swap with something like:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=1024
# mkswap swapfile
# swapon swapfile
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See Chapter 93 for further details on swap.
Next:
Anything greater than 400,000 kB available is good. Next:
Anything above 4,000,000 kB available is good. If you have less, delete
some files, grow your root partition, buy a new hard drive, or install
to a different partition (which means deviating from this guide.)
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