Oracle DBA, How To, Error, Cause and Action

ORA-07641: smscre: Unable to use the system pagefile for the SGA

ORA-07641: smscre: Unable to use the system pagefile for the SGA




Cause: The system global area (SGA) backing file could not be allocated using the system pagefile because the system-wide limit on global pages has been exceeded.




Action: Either increase the VMS system parameter GBLPAGFIL or use a disk file as the SGA backing file.