How do I up shared memory ?

[sirrom]

I need to up the shared memory on my Solaris 5.7 Generic_106541-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 machine.
Is this easily achievable ?
Are there any rules and guide lines to follow when doing it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[KenCunningham]

Are we talking an Oracle issue here? The shared memory info. is contained with the file /etc/system and can be amended using vi as required. If this is not clear, post the relevant part of your /etc/system file, my entries, for example, are:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10

You'll need to reboot the box for any changes to take effect. HTH.

 

[sirrom]

Not Oracle but CA Ingres.

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=450000000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=512
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10

 

[KenCunningham]

Sirrom, you could try upping the shmmax by adding a zero on the end of the entry in /etc/system and then rebooting. As far as I know only shared memory to the maximum of the system resource will be allocated anyway. Best of luck.