The problem was indeed that /tmp was a sym-link.
It works fine otherwise.
-Patrick
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> Greetings
>
> I'm trying to modify the vm subsystem using sysconfigdb.
> In accordance with the man pages for stanza(4) and sysconfigdb(8)
> I've created newconfig.vm.stanza as below. However, running
>
> sysconfigdb -a -f newconfig.vm.stanza vm
>
> returns
>
> /etc/sysconfigtab: Unable to update file from /tmp/sysconfigtabAAAaaxvta:
> Cross-device link. /tmp is a symlink to /local/tmp. Is that the problem,
> or am I missing something else?
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick O'Brien
>
> Here's newconfig.vm.stanza:
>
> vm:
> ubc-minpercent=10
> ubc-maxpercent=40
> ubc-borrowpercent=10
> ubc-maxdirtywrites=5
> ubc-wait-for-io=1
> vm-max-wrpgio-kluster=32768
> vm-max-rdpgio-kluster=16384
> vm-cowfaults=4
> vm-mapentries=200
> vm-maxvas=1073741824
> vm-maxwire=16777216
> vm-heappercent=7
> vm-anonklshift=17
> vm-anonklpages=1
> vm-vpagemax=16384
> vm-segmentation=1
> vm-ubcpagesteal=24
> vm-ubcdirtypercent=10
> vm-ubcseqstartpercent=50
> vm-ubcseqpercent=10
> vm-csubmapsize=1048576
> vm-ubcbuffers=256
> vm-syncswapbuffers=128
> vm-asyncswapbuffers=4
> vm-clustermap=1048576
> vm-clustersize=65536
> vm-zone_size=0
> vm-kentry_zone_size=16777216
> vm-syswiredpercent=80
> vm-inswappedmin=1
> vm-page-free-target=128
> vm-page-free-min=20
> vm-page-free-reserved=10
> vm-page-free-optimal=74
> dump-user-pte-pages=0
> kernel-stack-guard-pages=1
> vm-min-kernel-address=18446744071562067968
>
> Systems Administrator
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Received on Thu Dec 14 1995 - 21:19:20 NZDT