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Unixware kernel parameter tuning

While I wouldn't call SCO OSR5 "user friendly", it was far more so than Unixware. That said, for admins coming from SCO, most of it was just confusion from being different.

This is an example of the difference in tuning kernel paramaters.

From: Dave Noble <daven@sphinxcst.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Kernelparameter
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:39:29 +0100
Message-ID: <3795B171.9AECFC5A@sphinxcst.co.uk> 
References: <7n3ntn$52u$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> 

Baumgart wrote:
> 
> Version is unixware 7.1
> 
> Baumgart schrieb in Nachricht ...
> >We would like to setup the kernel by using the file mtune and stune.
> >Unfortunately it does not work. There must be some other importent file
> >which control the value in these files before we generate a new kernel.
> >
> >We have to setup the value for the shared memory to install baan.

UnixWare doesn't use the mtune/stune files like OpenServer does,
you will need to edit the files in /etc/conf/mtune.d to change the
default kernel parameters.

But the safest way to change kernel parameters, if you are not going
to use the System Tuner from the GUI, is to use /etc/conf/bin/idtune
- see the man page for idtune(1M).

Dave.

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