Re: Increasing number of semaphores in Kernal

In article <1993May5.144224_at_abds7.aberdeen.chevron.com>, epeas_at_abds7.aberdeen.chevron.com (John Peach) writes:
> In article <wtfxstonC6IqCp.Bww_at_netcom.com>, wtfxston_at_netcom.com (William Todd Featherston) writes:
> |> I am trying to install ORACLE 7.0.12 onto a SPARC 2 running SunOS 4.1.3
> |> It seems to be dying due to lack of semaphores. Could someone point out
> |> where I change the number of semaphore sets and semaphore per set?
>
> In the kernel -specifically SEMMNI SEMMSL and SEMMNS. Ref. Chapter 4,
> Installation & Users Guide.

Add the following lines to your /usr/sys/sun4c/conf/... configuration file:

options SEMMNI=40
options SEMMSL=80
options SEMMNS=300

and rebuild the kernel as normal.

We suspect that these numbers are too large, but what the hey..

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