ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

操作系统版本:rhel6.5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)）

数据库版本：11.2.0.4

现象：

Oracle 11g数据库修改spfile参数后启动数据库报错ora-00845

SQL> startup

ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

官方文档：

Starting with Oracle Database 11g, the Automatic Memory Management feature requires more shared memory (/dev/shm)and file descriptors. The size of the shared memory should be at least the greater of MEMORY_MAX_TARGET and MEMORY_TARGET for each Oracle instance on the computer. If MEMORY_MAX_TARGET or MEMORY_TARGET is set to a non zero value, and an incorrect size is assigned to the shared memory, it will result in an ORA-00845 error at startup.

If you are installing Oracle 11g on a Linux system, note that Memory Size (SGA and PGA), which sets the initialization parameter MEMORY_TARGET or MEMORY_MAX_TARGET, cannot be greater than the shared memory filesystem (/dev/shm) on your operating system. To resolve the current error, increase the /dev/shm file size.

If configuring AMM is not possible due to lack of space on /dev/shm mount point, you can configure ASMM instead of AMM, i.e. set SGA_TARGET, SGA_MAX_SIZE and PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET instead of MEMORY_TARGET.

在oracle 11g中新增的内存自动管理的参数MEMORY_TARGET,它能自动调整SGA和PGA，这个特性需要用到/dev/shm共享文件系统，而且要求/dev/shm必须大于MEMORY_TARGET，如果/dev/shm比MEMORY_TARGET小就会报错。

解决方案：

Action: Increase the /dev/shm mountpoint size. For example:

# mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=4g /dev/shm

Also, to make this change persistent across system restarts, add an entry in /etc/fstab similar to the following:

shmfs /dev/shm tmpfs size=7g 0 0