HOWTO: Fix "ORA-27102: out of memory" Error on Solaris 10
He's a little bit of helpful advice: if you are installing Oracle, adding a new instance to an already running installation, or tuning the SGA/PGA sizes on Solaris 10, and you find you get the following on starting that instance:
On the screen ...
SQL> startup
ORA-27102: out of memory
SVR4 Error: 22: Invalid argument
... and in the Oracle alert log ...
Error : EINVAL creating segment of size 0x000000009f000000
fix shm parameters in /etc/system or equivalent
... DON'T call Oracle. You're likely to experience one or all of the following...
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