[Hrgeeks] kernel.shmmax

[Matt Glaves]

As long as it's a dedicated DB box I think RAM-2GB left over for the base OS
is what I'd start with.

matt


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Erin <ewinningham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok. I claim defeat. Will someone please explain kernel.shmmax and
> kernel.shmall to me?  Specifically in relation to running Oracle on
> RHEL5 64bit. It seems the OS sets it to 64GB even though the server
> has 32GB of RAM. Tuned to RAM + reommended swap perhaps?  From what I
> can tell Oracle recommends RAM - 2GB on 64bit systems.
>
> Discuss.
>
> Erin
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