Kernel parameters in solaris 9

Can some one list some important tunable kernel parameters in solaris 9. Or a document to go through
Thanks
Naras

have a look at : - http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-7137?q=tunable&s=t
you can alaways come back to us if you have any questions about a specific tunable.
- Saurabh Mishra

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Hi,
actually i have these parameters and i need to increase them. Which will be the next values to be entered for those ones. Im using solaris 10 , oracle 10gR2.04.
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=2500
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=1000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
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set semsys:seminfo_semmns=2500
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Hi here i have answer for your query
if you want to set kernel parameters on solaris means
open the system file as vi /etc/system
and type the following at the end of file
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=2500
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=1000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
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save and exit
reboot your system
now your kernel parameters changed
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As a proof of concept I changed process.max-msg-messages to a 64k. process 2221 is my shell.
prctl -n process.max-msg-messages -r -v 64k 2221
bash-3.00# prctl 2221
process: 2221: -csh
NAME    PRIVILEGE       VALUE    FLAG   ACTION                       RECIPIENT
process.max-port-events
        privileged      65.5K       -   deny                                 -
        system          2.15G     max   deny                                 -
process.max-msg-messages
        privileged      64.0K       -   deny                                 -
        system          4.29G     max   deny                                 -
process.max-msg-qbytes
        privileged      64.0KB      -   deny                                 -
        system          4.00GB    max   deny                                 -And now to make this persist across reboots...
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-K "process.max-msg-messages=(priv,64K,deny)" \
-K "process.max-msg-qbytes=(priv,64K,deny)" \
user.me This creates the following /etc/project:
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placer% cat /etc/project
system:0::::
user.root:1::::
noproject:2::::
default:3::::
group.staff:10::::
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process: 419: -csh
NAME    PRIVILEGE       VALUE    FLAG   ACTION                       RECIPIENT
process.max-port-events
        privileged      65.5K       -   deny                                 -
        system          2.15G     max   deny                                 -
process.max-msg-messages
        privileged      64.0K       -   deny                                 -
        system          4.29G     max   deny                                 -
process.max-msg-qbytes
        privileged      64.0KB      -   deny                                 -
        system          4.00GB    max   deny                                 -
process.max-sem-ops
        privileged        512       -   deny                                 -
        system          2.15G     max   deny                                 -
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I have successfully installed ORACLE on red hat linux 5.0
even though I didn't set the kernel parameters.
On Solaris these parameters can be set in the /etc/system file.
Where do you set SHMMAX and the kernel parameters in linux?
I could not find a similar file.
Please enlighten me.
Thank You
Be careful with environment variables!
run the root.sh script after installation!
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Frank Westheider (guest) wrote:
: Mark Lee (guest) wrote:
: : I have successfully installed ORACLE on red hat linux 5.0
: : even though I didn't set the kernel parameters.
: : On Solaris these parameters can be set in the /etc/system
file.
: : Where do you set SHMMAX and the kernel parameters in linux?
: : I could not find a similar file.
: : Please enlighten me.
: : Thank You
: : Be careful with environment variables!
: : run the root.sh script after installation!
: Hi Mark.
: You have to install the Kernel-Sources and Include-Files.
: Just look in
: /usr/include/asm/*shm*.h
: and change the parameters. After this re-create the kernel with
: cd /usr/src/linux
: make clean && make dep && make && make modules && make
: modules_install
: and install the kernel-file (lilo/bootlin....).
: Ciao
: Frank Westheider
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Kernel Parameters?
From: Bolen Coogler (guest)
Email: [email protected]
Date: Mon Oct 26 16:00 CST 1998
The Oracle install instructions mention setting various kernel
parameters, such as:
SHMMAX 4294967296 (0x100000000)
SHMMIN 1
SHMMNI 100
SHMSEG 10
SEMMNS 200
SEMMNI 70
SEMMSL
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I've set up an HTPC with an AMD A4-5300 CPU, A75 (Hudson-D3) chipset and a PCIe sound card (Asus Xonar DX). Whenever I tried to get a sound out of it (e.g. aplay blubb.wav) I only got dozens of these messages in the kernel log:
[ 46.215678] AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=02:00.0 domain=0x0000 address=0x0000000000100000 flags=0x0050]
The messages appeared only on the first aplay command. When the program finished and I ran it again, I got no additional messages but sadly also no sound.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation!
But isn't the GART something Video Card related? Or is it that what you mean with "abusing" the GART?
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3. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c> : Software IOMMU implementation. Used
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