How to fix the error ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

Reason for the Error ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

The MEMORY_TARGET parameter was not supported on this operating system or /dev/shm was not sized correctly on Linux.

How to fix the Error ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Refer to documentation for a list of supported operating systems. Or, size /dev/shm to be at least the SGA_MAX_SIZE on each Oracle instance running on the system.