[Veritas-bu] Memory allocation - Solaris 8
2002-09-16 19:22:31
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[Veritas-bu] Memory allocation - Solaris 8 |
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trixee AT rcn DOT com (Tricia C. Sesar) |
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:22:31 -0400 |
On Monday 16 September 2002 10:53, Andy Skates wrote:
> Being fairly new to Solaris (version 8), can someone answer a question
> for me?
>
> I have a NBU 4.5 Media Server (running on a Solaris 8 server). I want to
> change SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS to 262144 and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS to 32, to see if
> this improves performance.
>
> This server has 3Gb of memory.
>
> I seem to remember someone saying that they is a configuration file within
> Solaris which states how much memory etc an application can use.
>
> If so, where is it, and what do I have to do to it to allow NBU to use as
> much memory as it requires?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy Skates
>
> andyskates AT iname DOT com
>From the technote that Mark pointed you to:
"NOTE: For Digital Linear Tape (DLT) drives the number that seems to give the
best performance for SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS is 65536. Further performance
improvements can be achieved by increasing the value in the
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS file."
My own testing confirms this in my environment.
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