From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Subject: MSGMNB and MSGMAX: good default values?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 19:54:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538A175C.80705@colorfullife.com> (raw)
Hi all,
until now, every sysadmin/distro had to update the sysv limits.
For shm, the new proposal is to increase the limits to (nearly) ULONG_MAX.
Right now, I try to create patches that also increase the limits for
sysv msg, but I got stuck:
- MSGMNI is trivial, just increase it to nearly IPCMNI.
- MSGMNB is not an upper limit, it is actually the default amount of
data that can be stored in a message queue before senders must sleep.
Since Linux-0.99.10, it always was 16384.
A websearch shows that for both db2 and oracle, the recommendation is
65536.
It seems that redhat has increased the value to 65536:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862597
Tuxedo seems to use sysv messages and the documentation warns that too
large values are harmfull:
http://read.pudn.com/downloads142/doc/618733/tux-a11-80/manual/13-ADM-PERF-Notes.pdf
- MSGMAX: Same issue as above: it was slightly below 4096 and since 2.6
it is 8192.
Any proposals?
Right now, I would leave MSGMAX and MSGMNB as they are.
--
Manfred
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