Dynamic Reconfiguration and Oracle 9i Dynamically Resizeable SGA 
by Erik Vanden Meersch and Kristien Hens
January, 2004
This article explains how Oracle 9i can operate in combination with Sun's dynamic reconfiguration (DR). It provides a brief overview of DR, intimate shared memory (ISM), dynamic intimate shared memory (DISM), and dynamically resizable system global area (SGA), and explains how these technologies fit together. In addition, this article provides step-by-step details for configuring Oracle relational databases on Sun Fire servers so that the DR capabilities of the Sun platform can be maximized. This article requires an intermediate reader. The features described in this article should be used with the Solaris 9 OS Update 2 and newer.