Adjusting HP-UX parameters [CR 403499]

You also need to adjust certain HP-UX kernel parameters to run Sybase IQ. The HP System Administration Manager (SAM) allows verification and setting of these parameters. The following table supersedes Table 1-4 in the Sybase IQ Installation and Configuration Guide. See your Sybase IQ Installation and Configuration Guide for a complete list of kernel parameter settings.

Table 1: HP-UX parameters

Parameter

HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11.i suggested value

HP-UX 11.23 Itanium suggested value

HP-UX 11.23 RISC suggested value

STRMSGSZ

65000

0

0

bufpages

2048

n/a

n/a

max_thread_proc

4096

4096

4096

maxfiles

2048

2048

2048

maxfiles_lim

2060

2060

2060

maxswapchunks

16384

n/a

n/a

maxusers

512

n/a

n/a

nfile

20000

20000

20000

nkthread

4096

8416

4096

sema

1

n/a

n/a

semmap

7084

n/a

n/a

semmni

7082

7082

7082

semmns

14164

14164

14164

shmmax

2147483647 (0X7FFFFFFF)

2147483647 (0X7FFFFFFF)

2147483647 (0X7FFFFFFF)

swapmem_on

0

0

0

unlockable_mem

10240

10240

10240

maxdsiz_64bit

17179869184 (0x400000000)

17179869184 (0x400000000)

17179869184 (0x400000000)

maxrsessiz_64bit

n/a

1073741824

n/a

maxssiz_64bit

268435456 (0x10000000)

1073741824

268435456 (0x10000000)

maxtsiz_64bit

4294967296 (0x100000000)

4294967296 (0x100000000)

4294967296 (0x100000000)