maxumem parameter -- what is it

From: <DINMAN_at_ALADDIN-ASI.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:16:30 -0500

Does anybody out there have any ideas on this one????
4100 box
3gig RAM
dual 533 processors
200gig of drive space in RAID 0/1
DEC-UX 4.0b Patch Kit 8

When we start up a product called CORVU to access our PROGRESS language
databases, the following error messages are generated

The data space of the process is not enough for the shm segment

Progress says that this is a UNIX parameter error and to increase
substantially the following parameters
1) shared memory segment
2) shared memory max
3) shared memory min
4) maxumem

I found 1-3 in my sysconfigtab and substantially increased them. Following
is the stanza from my sysconfigtab.
ipc:
sem-mni=1024
sem-msl=4096
msg-mnb=40960
msg-mni=512
msg-tql=256
shm-max=268435456
shm-mni=4096
shm-seg=4096
sem-opm=2048
sem-ume=2048
num-of-sems=2048
        proc: maxusers = 256

However

I did not know what to do with "maxumem". so I called Compaq. Compaq
informed me that maxumem equated to ulimit which is not a globally
configurable parameter. It is by default set to unlimited, so I don't
understand how that could be generating an error message.

TIA to a great group


Dale Inman
Unix Systems Admin
Aladdin Industries
615-748-3242 v.
615-874-1743 f.
Received on Thu Sep 17 1998 - 15:20:16 NZST

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