From: lindholm@ucs.ubc.ca (George Lindholm) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle Subject: Re: Increasing number of semaphores in Kernal Date: 5 May 1993 21:58:19 GMT Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s9d9rINN6f1@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <1993May5.144224@abds7.aberdeen.chevron.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: greve.ucs.ubc.ca In article <1993May5.144224@abds7.aberdeen.chevron.com>, epeas@abds7.aberdeen.chevron.com (John Peach) writes: > In article , wtfxston@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.. -- George Lindholm phone: (604) 822-4375 University Computing Services, UBC fax: (604) 822-5116 6356 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, B.C., Canada internet: lindholm@ucs.ubc.ca V6T 1Z2 bitnet: USERGNL@UBCMTSG