Technote talking about Linux kernel tuning recommendations: http://support.veritas.com/docs/263755
A little old but I doubt the variables have changed any. - John Nardello -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathryn Hemness Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:59 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Shared Memory Configuration Greetings, My backup enterprise currently consists of a Solaris 9 Sun V240 master and 3 Sun X4200 RHEL3 Linux Media Servers running NB51MP5. I've been getting the following messages for backups and duplications to storage units on my Linux media servers: "problems encountered during setup of shared memory (89)" I use disk storage units and a mixed LTO2/LTO3 library. I've attempted to setup my Linux media servers similar to my Solaris 9 master by using the same NUMBER/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS files in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config. But on my Solaris 9 master, I also had /etc/system settings for msgsys, semsys, and shmsys values. I haven't been able to find anything about needing similar /etc/system tuning on Linux (I believe the /etc/system equivalents are set via the /etc/sysctl.conf file). I'm hoping someone can tell me if all of the /etc/system parameters can be set with sysctl on Linux and if their names are the same. Here are my current Solaris /etc/system parameters: set msgsys:msginfo_msgmap=512 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmax=8192 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb=65536 set msgsys:msginfo_msgmni=256 set msgsys:msginfo_msgssz=16 set msgsys:msginfo_msgtql=512 set msgsys:msginfo_msgseg=8192 set semsys:seminfo_semmap=64 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=300 set semsys:seminfo_semopm=32 set semsys:seminfo_semume=64 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=536870912 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=220 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100 Any help is appreciated. --Kathy _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu