RE: kernal values for HPUX 11i on (Superdom Itanium Processor)

  • From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:27:41 -0400

If you have a mix of applications and users that have the authority to use
shared memory and the competing needs must be allocated by rigid control
rather than by reason, then the best setting is "barely big enough to run
Oracle well in your environment", and you may have to "tune" to reach the
proper balance.

If the server is dedicated to providing ORACLE database services, blow the
lid off the ones that go up and make the minimums 1. By blow the lid off, I
mean just use the largest number that works on your exact configuration.
Then if something fails it will be due to the lack of a resource, rather
than an artificial limit. None of the ones about which you inquired are
minimums, but shmmin, I think, needs to be 1 to avoid situations that crop
up from time to time where Oracle tests whether it can get shared memory by
asking for a shared segment of size 1, and then does an exact check of the
size returned instead of accepting a larger allocation. This happens and
then gets fixed over time, and I don't know of any real harm in allowing the
allocation of single byte areas. (The theoretical concern being with regard
to fragmentation and garbage collection on release of shared memory
segments.)

My opinion is that servers for Oracle should be dedicated to Oracle and
pretty much nothing else unless the functional binding is very tight and the
advantage high. If you insist on an actual perfect constant, the number is
42 (but you have to figure out the scale.)

Good luck!

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Subject: kernal values for HPUX 11i on (Superdom Itanium Processor)






Gents,

We are brining HP superdom Itanium Processors. Can any one suggest us the
best values, not the recommended default values, for the following:

shmmax
shmmni
shmseg
semmns
semmni

Also, pelase tell us what are the patches required for this, OS level.


Best Regards,

Syed Jaffar Hussain
OCP, DBA Consultant

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