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Table 2.7. Sun Solaris sparcv9
Criteria Requirements
Operating System Solaris 9 with the latest patches and upgrades
CPU Type UltraSparc-IIi SPARC v9 300MHz or faster (64-
bit)
Memory/RAM
256 MB minimum
1 GB RAM for large environments
Hard Disk
200 MB of disk space minimum for a typical
deployment
2 GB minimum for larger environments
4 GB minimum for very large environments (more
than a million entries)
You must use the largefile command to
configure database files larger than 2 GB.
Other To run the Directory Server using port numbers
less than 1024, such as the default port 389, you
must setup and start the Directory Server as
root, but it is not necessary to run the Directory
Server as root.
2.2.4 .1. Solaris Patches
The patches required to run the Directory Server on Solaris 9 are listed in Table 2.8, “Sun Solaris
Patches”. Run the dsktune utility to see if you need to install any other patches. dsktune helps verify
whether the appropriate patches are installed on the system and provides useful information for tuning
your kernel parameters for best performance. For information on dsktune, see Section 2.2.1, “Using
dsktune”.
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