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Old 12-11-2008
Solaris 10 kernel Params, Set/Get?
I am experienced with Solaris 8 where this type of thing was handled from /etc/system but now I have a Solaris 10 server and I am having trouble determining how to interact with the kernel parameters. I need to know how to check the values of the following, of the DB people I work with.

MAX NUM OF USER PROCESSES

MAX NUM OF SYSTEM USERS

MAX NUM OF SEMAPHORES

MAX NUM OF SYSTEM WIDE FILES

MAX NUM OF SYSTEM PROCESSES

I have searched and found out about many of the changes on how the system handles things differently, by projects and what not. I know about the command prctl, and how if you are a different user when you issue it you will get different output. I have searched (All Day Yesterday) and was able to answer many of the questions I had, but I am out of time for this task so I thought I would ask for some help. Could someone please tell me how to do this or direct me to a thread where it is discussed.
Thank you for your time,
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Old 12-11-2008
http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/r...ris-slides.pdf
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Old 12-11-2008
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Originally Posted by incredible
WOW, lots of good info in there! I am looking at it now, but can you direct me to a slightly more localized section of it to look at for my specific problems? I don't want to seem ungrateful in any way, but at 536 pages with no TOC it is kind of time consuming to look through it all for what I need. Although as soon as I get time I do plan to look through the entire thing, as I said there seems to be some really useful stuff in there.

Thanks,
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Old 12-11-2008
pdf right?.. you can search using keywords man Smilie
eg prctl..?
you can try,,
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Old 12-11-2008
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Originally Posted by incredible
pdf right?.. you can search using keywords man Smilie
eg prctl..?
you can try,,
Yeah I actually did that, before I asked. It leads me to some definitions of what it is, ie a control to set and get the kern params, which I already knew, but no useful examples on how to actually use it.

Either way thank you for the informative link.
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Old 12-11-2008
Try this link: Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual - Sun Microsystems
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Old 12-11-2008
Here is what I have found so far via google:
Format is, what - Command to get it.
Max. num. of user processes. - echo maxuprc/D | mdb -k
Max. num. of system users. - echo maxusers/D | mdb -k
Max. num. of semaphores. -
Max. num. of per-process open files. -
Max. num. of system wide files. -
Max. num. of system processes. - echo max_nprocs/D | mdb -k

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