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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) [...]

Oracle on Solaris is making a come back?

Oracle has just announced a new world record TPC-C benchmark result claiming that Oracle and Sun Are Faster than IBM: Proof Now Available. What’s really interesting is that they used Solaris OS instead of Oracle EL for this benchmark, specifically: “Oracle® Database 11g running on Sun SPARC® servers with CMT technology and the [...]

Exadata Version 2 – final blow to Oracle/HP relationship?

It took Oracle buying SUN to finally come out with something worthy this relationship — Exadata Version 2. Oracle has killed two birds with one stone capitalizing on their superior Oracle Enterprise Linux and SUN’s x64 hardware, once again proving that it’s bet is on OEL not Solaris.
The pricing model allows incremental growth using [...]

11gR2 is here!

In case you didn’t get this via oracle.com news updates — 11gR2 is out and available for download from here ….
And as I have predicted, the first distro is Linux x86 and Linux x86-64. So if you are a die-hard Solaris fan it should now be obvious (if it wasn’t already) that Linux is [...]


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