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
File System Subsystem
File System Buffer Parameters
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Alternate Procedure
To allocate a fixed amount of memory for static buffer cache, set bufpages to the desired
number of 4 KB pages, and set nbuf to zero, which allocates space for bufpages/2 buffer
headers in the header array. dbc_min_pct and dbc_max_pct are ignored.
Additional Information
• “File System Buffer Parameter Summary” on page 24