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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Memory Config on Linux
Cooper wrote:
> Joerg Lanzinger wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > if you really need to adjust this setting (for my SuSE distr. they're alll
> > ok), you'll have to compile a new kernel. I don't know the *.h files to
> > alter by har, but I think "grep" will find them for you.
> >
> > HTH
> > Jörg
> >
> > Joe Maliszewski schrieb:
> >
> > > I am using Slackware 4. Kernel 2.2.6.
> > > I am trying to set up Oracle8 on this machine. Part of the install step
> > > is setting Kernel parameters. Oracle calls it SHMMAX, SHMMIN, SHMMNI,
> > > SHSEG, SEMMNS, SEMMNI and SEMMSL. How can I set these?
>
> The files are in ./include/asm-<platform>/ (relative to the location
> where you installed the linux kernel sources) called shm.h and
> shmparam.h
>
> Recompile and you're set.
> Apparently you can set SHMMAX on the fly by changing a file in /proc but
> on the systems I had here this file wasn't present.
> I think it was /proc/sys/kernel or something like that. You need SysCtrl
> in the kernel to have the dir.
>
> Tom Wirschell
>
I am running the Mandrake 6.1 distribution of Linux (kernel 2.2.13). Are the above instructions valid for this distro also? Can I just set these as environment variables or must I recompile the kernel to get Oracle to work ? (would be bogus!)
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