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Oracle 10g RAC on ESXi3 using SLES9 SP5 – Part 6

February 14th, 2009 Comments off

Linux OS Parameters

Here is the list of the required parameters for clusterware and oracle database 10g

Parameter Value File
semmsl semmns semopm semmni 25 032 000 100 128 /proc/sys/kernel/sem
shmmax The minimum of the following (4 GB – 1 byte), or half the size of physical memory (in bytes), whichever is lower. /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
shmmni 4096 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
shmall 2097152 /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
file-max 65536 /proc/sys/fs/file-max
ip_local_port_range Minimum: 1024 Maximum: 65000 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
rmem_default 262144 /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
rmem_max 4194304 /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
wmem_default 262144 /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
wmem_max 4194304 /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max

In order to check the values in your system use the sysctl command.
You will probably get the following results from the default kernel configuration:

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