Tunable Kernel Parameters
Table Of Contents
- Tunable Kernel Parameters
- Legal Notices
- Revision History
- Conventions
- 1 Overview
- 2 Accounting Subsystem
- 3 Asynchronous I/O Subsystem
- 4 File System Subsystem
- 5 Interprocess Communication (IPC) Subsystem
- 6 Kernel Crash Dump Subsystem
- 7 Memory Paging Subsystem
- 8 Process Management Subsystem
- 9 Spinlock Pool
- 10 Streams Subsystem
- 11 Miscellaneous Parameters
- Miscellaneous Parameter Summary
- CD-ROM Parameter Summary
- System Clock Parameter Summary
- Disk I/O Parameter Summary
- Intrusion Detection System/9000
- Fast Symbolic Link Traversal Parameter Summary
- Reserved System Memory Parameter Summary
- Network Parameter Summary
- Queued Signals Parameter Summary
- Real-Time Priority Parameter Summary
- Terminal Parameter Summary
- Maximum Users Parameter Summary
- Web Server Parameter Summary
- Miscellaneous Parameter Summary
- A Table of Tunable Kernel Parameters

Accounting Subsystem
Accounting Parameter Summary
Chapter 2
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Accounting Parameter Summary
Two configurable kernel parameters are related to accounting:
Additional Information
• “Overview of Accounting Parameters” on page 17
• “Specifying a Threshold Value” on page 18
• “How to Specify Configurable Parameter Values” on page 13
Accounting acctresume Resume accounting when free space on the file system
where accounting log files reside rises above acctresume
plus minfree percent of total usable file system size.
Manpage: acctsuspend (5).
Accounting acctsuspend Suspend accounting when free space on the file system
where accounting log files reside drops below
acctsuspend plus minfree percent of total usable file
system size. Manpage: acctsuspend (5).
Accounting max_acct_file_size Maximum size of the accounting file. Manpage:
max_acct_file_size (5).