Tuning STEAMS params in Solaris 2.4

[Ram Chandran]

Hi,

I need some help in changing some of the kernal parameters
pertaining to STREAMS in Solaris 2.4.

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# netstat -m
streams allocation:
cumulative allocation
current maximum total failures
streams 256 325 55747 0
queues 727 864 143443 0
msg 349 2419 25279317 1
linkblk 10 169 22 0
strevent 8 169 135 0
syncq 18 56 91 0
qband 0 127 26 0

250 Kbytes allocated for streams data
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I would like to change the streams/queues/msg max count but I
don't
know how to indicate that in /etc/system.

Thanks,

Ram
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[Casper H.S. Dik]

Ram Chandran <chan...@mcom.com> writes:

># netstat -m
>streams allocation:
> cumulative allocation
> current maximum total failures
>streams 256 325 55747 0
>queues 727 864 143443 0
>msg 349 2419 25279317 1
>linkblk 10 169 22 0
>strevent 8 169 135 0
>syncq 18 56 91 0
>qband 0 127 26 0
>
>250 Kbytes allocated for streams data
>

>I would like to change the streams/queues/msg max count but I
>don't
>know how to indicate that in /etc/system.

>Thanks,

The "max" " values are not the maximum number allowable, they're the maximum
number allocated at one point in time.

The max number will grow if demand is higher, as long as there is
memory available to your kernel. Allocation failures will only happen
if a block is allocated with KMEM_NOSLEEP *and* freemem is too low
to satisfy the request.

Casper
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