Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required. Failed or Configure the swap space
Posted by Mir Sayeed Hassan on June 19th, 2021
Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required. Failed or Configure the swap space
Error log while installation.
[oracle@miroradb database]$ ./runInstaller Starting Oracle Universal Installer... Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 36214 MB Passed Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required. Failed <<<< Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed Some requirement checks failed. You must fulfill these requirements before continuing with the installation, Continue? (y/n) [n] n User Selected: No Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at /tmp/OraInstall2021-06-16_02-03-20PM/installActions2021-06-16_02-03-20PM.log
First check the swap space assign in this server
[oracle@miroradb database]$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1837 113 83 12 1641 1546 Swap: 0 0 0
or #swapon -s
If it return “0”, It mean swap does not present
create a Swap file using the dd command as shown below
[root@miroradb ~]# sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 18.922 s, 227 MB/s
[root@miroradb ~]# ls -lh /swapfile -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4.0G Jun 16 14:08 /swapfile
Provide the swap file the appropriate permissions
[root@miroradb ~]# sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
Format & activate the Swap file to be used.
[root@miroradb ~]# sudo mkswap /swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4194300 KiB no label, UUID=11fa40b9-66d5-430f-b12b-6d4ac8c4eac0
Verify the swap file created on server
[root@miroradb ~]# swapon /swapfile
[root@miroradb ~]# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /swapfile file 4194300 0 -2
[root@miroradb ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1837 117 67 12 1653 1539 Swap: 4095 0 4095
To make it permanent. Update in to the /etc/fstab
vi /etc/fstab /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 :wq
Verify any error:
[root@miroradb ~]# mount -a Note: - If your sever is test., try to reboot once & verify the swap allocated or schedule a minimal downtime for reboot.