There are 2 basic steps mentioned above:
1. lowering the mapped_base in Linux
2. lowering the sga_base in Oracle
9iR2 10gR1 10gR2*
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RHEL 2.1 x86 1,2 1,2 ---
RHEL 3 x86 2 2 2*
RHEL 4 x86 2 2 2*
SLES 8 x86 1,2 --- ---
SLES 9 x86 1,2 1,2 1,2**
* with 10gR2, the sga_base is set to 0x20000000 by default,
so lowering the sga_base is usually not needed.
** since the sga_base is lowered by default in 10gR2, the
mapped_base in SLES 9 needs to be lowered (or the sga_base
needs to be raised) for proper operation