Insufficient total swap space installing Oracle Database 11gR2 on AIX

Problem:
While installing Oracle Database 11gR2 on AIX 6.1, OUI reports that not enough swap space is available. Oracle Installer reports that the swap size is 4GB. It should be about 7.5GB.

Solution:
Increase swap space by using the ‘extendlv’ command.

# oslevel
6.1.0.0
# sysdumpdev -l
primary              /dev/lg_dumplv
secondary            /dev/sysdumpnull
copy directory       /var/adm/ras
forced copy flag     TRUE
always allow dump    FALSE
dump compression     ON
type of dump         traditional
# mount
  node       mounted        mounted over    vfs       date        options
-------- ---------------  ---------------  ------ ------------ ---------------
         /dev/hd4         /                jfs2   Feb 06 13:07 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/hd2         /usr             jfs2   Feb 06 13:07 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/hd9var      /var             jfs2   Feb 06 13:07 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/hd3         /tmp             jfs2   Feb 06 13:07 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/fwdump      /var/adm/ras/platform jfs2   Feb 06 13:08 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/hd1         /home            jfs2   Feb 06 13:08 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/hd11admin   /admin           jfs2   Feb 06 13:08 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /proc            /proc            procfs Feb 06 13:08 rw
         /dev/hd10opt     /opt             jfs2   Feb 06 13:08 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/livedump    /var/adm/ras/livedump jfs2   Feb 06 13:08 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/installlv   /install         jfs2   Feb 06 13:08 rw,log=/dev/hd8
         /dev/fnswlv      /fnsw            jfs2   Feb 06 13:48 rw,log=/dev/loglv00
         /dev/dbhomelv    /u01             jfs2   Feb 06 14:33 rw,log=/dev/loglv00
# lsps -a
Page Space      Physical Volume   Volume Group Size %Used Active  Auto  Type Chksum
hd6             hdisk0            rootvg        4096MB     1   yes   yes    lv     0
# pstat -s
PAGE SPACE:

          USED PAGES   FREE PAGES
             2198      1046378

# extendlv
0516-602 extendlv: Logical volume name not entered.
Usage: extendlv [-a IntraPolicy] [-e InterPolicy] [-m MapFile]
        [-s Strict] [-u UpperBound] LVname NumberOfLPs [PVname...]
Extends the size of a logical volume.
# extendlv hd6 4G
# lsps -a
Page Space      Physical Volume   Volume Group Size %Used Active  Auto  Type Chksum
hd6             hdisk0            rootvg        8192MB     1   yes   yes    lv     0

 

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