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Increase memory usage Oracle Windows 2003

730380Mar 11 2010 — edited Mar 11 2010
Hello,
I have a problem with my Oracle. I have installed Oracle 10.2.0.3 on Windows Server 2003 (32 Bit).

Everything works fine, but every time I look at the task-manager I see, that Oracle only uses 250 MB Memory. My operating system has 4 GB RAM. Therefore I don't understand, that Oracle only uses 250 MB.

Normally, that wouldn't be a problem, but in my oracle database I have tables with over 5.000.000 Rows and I use spatial operations to compare these rows.

Because of this, in many cases I get the following error from oracle during the spatial operations from my enterprise manager.

'Significant virtual memory paging was detected on the host operating system ...'

As a solution, Oracle suggests, to increase the phyisical memory. But Oracle only uses 250 MB of the 4GB, which is available.

I searched a bit in the internet for a solution, but I didn't found something, which is useful for me.

I increased parameters like sga_max_size or sga_target in oracle, but nothing changed.

How can I increase the phyisical memory, which is used by oracle (1GB would be great instead of 250mb)

(Furthermore I read, that oracle can't use more than 1,3 gb under windows server 2003 32 bit. is that true?)

Thanks for your help.

Best regards
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