1. I really REALLY hope you do not have number of data buffers set to 3072; that's ludicrously high. A reasonable number for LTO3 drives would be 32 with size data buffers of 262144. Don't forget that the amount of shared memory required by NBU is size data buffers * num data buffers * mpx * number of drives. With your settings your looking at 400Mb of shared memory before you take into account mpx and
2. With solaris 10 you should not be changing the /etc/system file - a lot of settings that you'd put in there for Sol9 and earlier are now deprecated or obsolete (as per SUN's documentation in system tuning); IPC tuning is now done by using solaris 10 projects (/etc/projects file). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NBU Sent: 23 July 2008 13:40 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Shared memory issue with Solaris 10 Friends, Fine tunning has been done in /etc/system also but no luck. Following is systems setting: We have set Net_BUFFER SIZE and /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 131072 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS= 3072 Following is the kernel parameter of Solaris 10 OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] # prtctl $$ -bash: prtctl: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] # prctl $$ process: 15640: -bash NAME PRIVILEGE VALUE FLAG ACTION RECIPIENT process.max-port-events privileged 65.5K - deny - system 2.15G max deny - process.max-msg-messages privileged 8.19K - deny - system 4.29G max deny - process.max-msg-qbytes privileged 64.0KB - deny - system 16.0EB max deny - process.max-sem-ops privileged 512 - deny - system 2.15G max deny - process.max-sem-nsems privileged 512 - deny - system 32.8K max deny - process.max-address-space privileged 16.0EB max deny - system 16.0EB max deny - process.max-file-descriptor basic 256 - deny 15640 privileged 65.5K - deny - system 2.15G max deny - process.max-core-size privileged 8.00EB max deny - system 8.00EB max deny - process.max-stack-size basic 8.00MB - deny 15640 privileged 8.00EB - deny - system 8.00EB max deny - process.max-data-size privileged 16.0EB max deny - system 16.0EB max deny - process.max-file-size privileged 8.00EB max deny,signal=XFSZ - system 8.00EB max deny - process.max-cpu-time privileged 18.4Es inf signal=XCPU - system 18.4Es inf none - task.max-cpu-time system 18.4Es inf none - task.max-lwps system 2.15G max deny - project.max-contracts privileged 10.0K - deny - system 2.15G max deny - project.max-device-locked-memory privileged 3.92GB - deny - system 16.0EB max deny - project.max-locked-memory system 16.0EB max deny - project.max-port-ids privileged 8.19K - deny - system 65.5K max deny - project.max-shm-memory privileged 48.0GB - deny - system 16.0EB max deny - project.max-shm-ids privileged 512 - deny - system 16.8M max deny - project.max-msg-ids privileged 256 - deny - system 16.8M max deny - project.max-sem-ids privileged 512 - deny - system 16.8M max deny - project.max-crypto-memory privileged 15.7GB - deny - system 16.0EB max deny - project.max-tasks system 2.15G max deny - project.max-lwps system 2.15G max deny - project.cpu-shares privileged 1 - none - system 65.5K max none - zone.max-swap system 16.0EB max deny - zone.max-locked-memory system 16.0EB max deny - zone.max-shm-memory system 16.0EB max deny - zone.max-shm-ids system 16.8M max deny - zone.max-sem-ids system 16.8M max deny - zone.max-msg-ids system 16.8M max deny - zone.max-lwps system 2.15G max deny - zone.cpu-shares privileged 1 - none - system 65.5K max none - +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu