Adjusting the operating system shared memory parameter

Adjust the shared memory segments using the following instructions, based on your operating system.

IBM AIX

No special steps are necessary to configure for shared memory, however, you can modify the global ulimit information in /etc/security/limits with the following, in case the default hard limits for file sizes (fsize) and numbers of files (nofiles) may be too low:

You can also edit /etc/security/limits by changing the default data value to “-1”:

default: 
    ...
    data = -1 
    ...

HP-UX

The default total logical memory parameter for HP is:

To adjust the shared memory value of the operating system, use the System Administration Manager (SAM). After you install Adaptive Server, you can change any configuration parameter, procedure cache, or data cache size. This may require that you increase the value of the max memory configuration parameter.