RE: Solaris memory management
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From: Martin Fuerderer [mailto:MARTINFU@de.ibm.com]
Sent: 11 April 2005 06:57 PM
[dirk]
owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 11.04.2005 13:35:51:
> I am trying to find out what the limit is on contiguous memory in
> Solaris. Can I grab one segment of 20G, or will Solaris break the
> segment down into smaller pieces ?
>
> For example, if I run onstat -g seg, can I have one segment of 20G, or
> is this not possible ?
>
> I am using Solaris 9 and IDS 7.31 FD3 ...... 64bit
>
> Dirk Moolman
> Database and Unix Administrator
> MXGROUP
>
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[martin]
>Hi,
>
>in general this is configurable in the kernel. Maximum possible
>configuration may also depend on Solaris version, but I don't know.
>The kernel parameter may be something like
> shminfo_shmseg
>but I'm not 100% sure.
Does anyone know if shmseg has a limitation on it ? I remember working
on AIX, which had a limit on this, and that shmseg was broken up into
separate chunks. They had a work around for this though, but it wasn't
the default.
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