Solaris 10 shared memory config/ora 11g

Question

The ora 11 install guide for spark solaris 10 is very confusing wrt shared memory and my system does not seem to using memory correctly, lots of swapping on an 8GB real memory system.
The doc says to set /etc/system to:
shmsys:shminfo_shmmax project.max-shm-memory 4294967296
but infers that this is not used.
Then, the doc states to set a project shared mem value of 2GB:
# projmod -sK "project.max-shm-memory=(privileged,2G,deny)" group.dba
Why is this number different?
By setting to to 2G as documented oracle did not work at all and so I found Note:429191.1
on the solaris 10 memory which hints that these numbers should be big:
% prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -r -v 24GB -i project oracle_dss
% prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -i project oracle_dss
project: 101: oracle_dss
NAME PRIVILEGE VALUE FLAG ACTION RECIPIENT
project.max-shm-memory
privileged 24.0GB - deny -
system 16.0EB max deny
Is there some logic in how to get solaris 10/ora 11 to hold hands. The install doc does not seem to contain it.

Answer 1

system does not seem to using memory correctly, lots of swapping on an 8GB real memory system.We could start (for example) with this question - How big is your SGA or how much of 8GB RAM takes your SGA?
The doc says to set /etc/system to:
shmsys:shminfo_shmmax project.max-shm-memory 4294967296
but infers that this is not used.From documentation:
In Solaris 10, you are not required to make changes to the /etc/system file to implement the System V IPC. Solaris 10 uses the resource control facility for its implementation. However, Oracle recommends that you set both resource control and /etc/system/ parameters. Operating system parameters not replaced by resource controls continue to affect performance and security on Solaris 10 systems.
Then, the doc states to set a project shared mem value of 2GB:
# projmod -sK "project.max-shm-memory=(privileged,2G,deny)" group.dba
Why is this number different?It's an example how "To set the maximum shared memory size to 2 GB"
By setting to to 2G as documented oracle did not work at all Docs says:
On Solaris 10, verify that the kernel parameters shown in the following table are set to values greater than or equal to the recommended value shown.
If your SGA was greater than 2G I'm nor wondering why "oracle did not work at all".
So for 4GB SGA (for example) you need allow allocation of 4G of shared memory.
Note: shmsys:shminfo_shmmax != project.max-shm-memory. "project.max-shm-memory" is replacement of "shmsys:shminfo_shmmax" but function of these parameters differs.
"project.max-shm-memory resource control limits the total amount of shared memory of one project, whereas previously, the shmsys:shminfo_shmmax parameter limited the size of a single shared memory segment."
Relevant link to Sun docs: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2724/chapter1-33