Re: How to PERMANENTLY set semaphores in Linux - Suse Personal Edition 8.2?

From: Reinhold Fischer (no-spam_at_no-spam)
Date: 11/14/03 

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:03:12 +0100

Hi!

I use sysctl(8):

o) Edit /etc/sysctl.conf
add/change: kernel.shmmax=129654784

o) Edit /etc/init.d/boot.local
sysctl -p

o) Activate settings
root# sysctl -p
kernel.shmmax = 129654784

A reboot for this is on linux not necessary (only in solaris). 

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Ing. Reinhold Fischer
linuxquestion@yahoo.com schrieb am 2003-11-13 10:01 folgendes:
> HI all,
> 
> I'm using:  Linux Suse personal edition 8.2 
> 
> I am using the dbca with Oracle 9.2.  It keeps 
> running out of memory with the ora-27123 error.
> 
> As the docs said, I did this:
> 
> echo `expr 2048 \* 1024 \* 1024` > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> 
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> 2147483648
> 
> reboot
> 
> ---------------
> 
> But, then I got the same symptom.  
> I checked the file. 
> 
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> 33554432
> 
> So, it didn't keep the value!!!
> 
> 
> ipcs -l
> 
> ------ Shared Memory Limits --------
> max number of segments = 4096
> max seg size (kbytes) = 32768
> max total shared memory (kbytes) = 8388608
> min seg size (bytes) = 1
> 
> ------ Semaphore Limits --------
> max number of arrays = 1024
> max semaphores per array = 250
> max semaphores system wide = 256000
> max ops per semop call = 32
> semaphore max value = 32767
> 
> ------ Messages: Limits --------
> max queues system wide = 128
> max size of message (bytes) = 8192
> default max size of queue (bytes) = 16384
> 
> 
> In Solaris, this was easy.  Edit the file:
> /etc/system
> and reboot.  The values stayed there forever.
> 
> But how to do this in Suse, and make it stick?  
> 
> I don't want to put this in some script, so they
> get changed while booting, and add yet another
> layer of complexity. 
> 
> Thanks

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