I have found that projects tend to override the /etc/system setting, so relying on /etc/system sometimes causes unexpected / incorrect behavior. Since the behavior of mixing /etc/system and projects is not well understood I would recommend using projects. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:52 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: solaris 10 kernel parameters What do most people do: Keep using /etc/system in Solaris 10 or the Resouce Control Facility? Or do people ignore the parameters and not set any in /etc/system or the Resouce Control? I have a unix admin saying nothing needs to be set because they read that /etc/system is not used in Solaris 10 anymore. Below is from a doc on metalink. At the minimun the new kernel parameters for Solaris 10 need to be set. Is this correct? Is NOEXEC_USER_STACK 1 set in /etc/system or the Resouce Control? SEMMNI 100 *** SEMMNS 1024 ** SEMMSL 256 *** SEMVMX 32767 ** SHMMAX 4294967295 SHMMIN 1 * SHMMNI 100*** SHMSEG 10 * NOEXEC_USER_STACK 1 * obsolete in Solaris 9 and 10 ** obsolete in Solaris 10 *** default value in Solaris 10 is already larger Note: for Solaris 10 SHMMAX which is now set through the Resource Control Facility not /etc/system. Refer to the 10gR2 for Solaris SPARC Installation guide for steps to do this, as well as, the Release Notes which has corrections: 10.2 Install Guides and Release Notes <http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.portal_db?selected=1> Here are the new names of the kernel parameters for Solaris 10 (Solaris 9 equivalents are in parentheses): * project.max-sem-ids 100 (semmni) * process.max-sem-nsems 256 (semmsl) * project.max-shm-memory 4294967295 (shmmax) * project.max-shm-ids 100 (shmmni) ________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/>