Checking Hardware and Memory Configuration Grid Infraestructure 12c r2

To check the size of the configured swap space
[oracle@ol7-121-server1 ~]$ grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo

SwapTotal:       5451772 kB

To determine the available RAM and swap space
[oracle@ol7-121-server1 ~]$ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        3781836      627716     2330216        9924      823904     3076404

Swap:       5451772           0     5451772

To determine the amount of free disk space on the system
[oracle@ol7-121-server1 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                1.9G  8.9M  1.8G   1% /run
tmpfs                1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/ol-root   19G   12G  7.8G  59% /
/dev/sda1           1014M  305M  710M  30% /boot
tmpfs                370M  4.0K  370M   1% /run/user/42
tmpfs                370M   52K  370M   1% /run/user/54321

tmpfs                370M     0  370M   0% /run/user/0

To determine the amount of space available in the /tmp directory
[oracle@ol7-121-server1 ~]$ df -h /tmp
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/ol-root   19G   12G  7.8G  59% /

To determine the physical RAM size
[oracle@ol7-121-server1 ~]$ grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo

SwapTotal:       5451772 kB

Server Memory Minimum Requirements

RDBMS 12C R1 installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone serve 

  • RAM 4GB minimum
  • Swap Space qual to the size of the RAM
  • Server Storage Minimum Requirement For Linux x86-64: At least 6.9 GB of disk space

Oracle Grid Infrastructure environment
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; 

export ORACLE_BASE
DISPLAY=SERVER_NAME:0.0; export DISPLAY
umask 022
Set ulimit settings