11gR2 install fails with “Hard Limit: maximum user processes” error
Just finished dealing with “Hard Limit: maximum user processes” error on Open Solaris 10 while installing 11gR2:
Oracle Metalink was useless — total waste of time — I hate that site now, it’s gone completely into the crapper.
SOLUTION (thanks to David D’Acquisto advice):
1) edit /etc/system as follows:
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=12025908428 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set max_nprocs=30000 set maxuprc=16384
2) setup project for oracle user (if it’s already setup then just ignore the duplicate error while running projadd command):
projadd -U oracle user.oracle projmod -s -K "project.max-sem-ids=(priv,100,deny)" user.oracle projmod -s -K "process.max-sem-nsems=(priv,256,deny)" user.oracle projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,12025908428,deny)" user.oracle projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-ids=(priv,100,deny)" user.oracle projmod -s -K "process.max-file-descriptor=(priv,65536,deny)" user.oracle
3) bounce the box:
init 6
Here’s how to check for the setting:
## before above changes were applied
##
$ kstat|grep v_proc
v_proc 16362
$
$ kstat |grep v_maxup
v_maxup 16357
v_maxupttl 16357
$
## after changes/reboot
##
$ kstat|grep v_proc
v_proc 30000
$
$ kstat |grep v_maxup
v_maxup 16384
v_maxupttl 29995
$NOTE: the setting above are based on 16gb of RAM if yours is less/more — adjust as per David’s formula.
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