RE: Solaris "infinite" shmmax value?

> In Solaris, is a shmmax setting of
>
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=0x40000000 or
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=0x80000000
>
> legitimate and is it "infinite", i.e. the amount of physical
> memory available on the server?

I don't know any infinte shmmax special values, all numbers represent real bytes, you could just set it larger than you need.

But lets start with basics:

1. which version of solaris and is it 32 or 64 bit? (in solaris 10 many kernel parameters have changed)
2. how much RAM you've got?
3. how big SGAs are you planning there?

Tanel.

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