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Eloquence B.08.30 may require the configuration of additional Linux kernel
parameters or adjustment of previously configured kernel parameters. Default settings
on contemporary Linux versions should typically be sufficent for small to
medium size installations.
The Eloquence eloqdb database server is a multi-threaded process
that opens a set of files (volume files, log files, etc),
allocates its internal database BufferCache, and waits for incoming
client connections via TCP sockets. For each client it creates an OS
level thread and by default it uses Sys V IPC semaphores and shared
memory to communicate with the clients, if they are on the same host.
The following sections discuss Linux kernel parameters involved.
You may have to increase some of the Linux kernel parameters beyond
the default values, depending on your number of eloqdb servers and
their eloqdb.cfg settings like Threads or BufferCache, for example.
Note that the discussion below only explains the requirements for
the eloqdb database server(s). When adjusting kernel parameters, you
need to also take into account any requirements by other applications
as well as the operating system itself. So you will typically add to
existing settings, to be on the safe side.
Processes / Threads
- kernel.threads-max
(also see /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max and sysctl.conf)
- RLIMIT_NPROC / ulimit -u
(also see setrlimit, pam_limits, and limits.conf)
The default settings for kernel.threads-max and RLIMIT_NPROC should typically
be sufficient, even with large [config] Threads values in eloqdb.cfg and/or
multiple eloqdb server instances per system.
Each eloqdb server process creates a small number of internal OS threads,
typically below 10, and one additional OS thread for every concurrent DB
client connection (regardless of the number of DBOPENs by each client).
Use
threads-max >= SUM of "10 + max number of clients (Threads)" per eloqdb
RLIMIT_NPROC >= MAX of "10 + max number of clients (Threads)" per eloqdb
In other words: threads-max depends on the total number of client threads
across your eloqdb servers, whereas RLIMIT_NPROC depends on the eloqdb
server with the largest number of client threads.
For example:
eloqdb server A: Threads = 1000
eloqdb server B: Threads = 300
eloqdb server C: Threads = 200
threads-max >= 1530 ( 3*10+1000+300+200 )
RLIMIT_NPROC >= 1010 ( 10+1000 )
$ sysctl -n kernel.threads-max # default sufficient
126227
$ ulimit -u # max user processes, default sufficient
63113
Sys V IPC semaphores
- semmni and semmns in kernel.sem
(also see /proc/sys/kernel/sem and sysctl.conf)
Each eloqdb server process uses Sys V IPC semaphores and shared memory
for communicating with the database clients running on the local system,
unless eloqdb.cfg is configured for [Server] EnableIPC = 0. For remote
database clients, only the TCP socket connection is used.
When using Sys V IPC semaphores, the eloqdb server allocates a semaphore
identifier with 2 semaphores for each concurrent client connection and
also makes use of SEM_UNDO operations for each of these client sessions.
Unless you have a large number of eloqdb servers, the Linux default for
semmns will typically be sufficient. However, you may need to increase
semmni in some cases, for example with large [config] Threads values
in eloqdb.cfg.
Use
semmni >= SUM of "max number of clients (Threads)" per eloqdb
semmns >= SUM of 2 * "max number of clients (Threads)" per eloqdb
In other words: semmni and semmns depend on the total number of client
threads across your eloqdb servers .
For example:
eloqdb server A: Threads = 1000
eloqdb server B: Threads = 300
eloqdb server C: Threads = 200
semmni >= 1500 ( 1000+300+200 )
semmns >= 3000 ( 2*1000+2*300+2*200 )
$ sysctl -n kernel.sem # SEMMSL, SEMMNS, SEMOPM, SEMMNI
250 32000 32 128
# sysctl -w kernel.sem="250 32000 32 1628" # increase SEMMNI
kernel.sem = 250 32000 32 1628
Note that sysctl -w only changes the running system, not the sysctl.conf file.
Sys V IPC shared memory
- kernel.shmmni
(also see /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni and sysctl.conf)
- kernel.shmmax
(also see /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax and sysctl.conf)
- kernel.shmall
(also see /proc/sys/kernel/shmall and sysctl.conf)
Each eloqdb server process uses Sys V IPC semaphores and shared memory
for communicating with the database clients running on the local system,
unless eloqdb.cfg is configured for [Server] EnableIPC = 0. For remote
database clients, only the TCP socket connection is used.
For EnableIPC=2 (the default) the eloqdb server allocates a single shared
memory segment for communicating with local database clients. The segment
size depends on the configured max number of clients, ie [config] Threads.
For EnableIPC=1 the eloqdb server allocates a separate 32 KB segment for
each database client.
Unless you have a large number of eloqdb servers or use EnableIPC=1,
the Linux defaults for shmmni will typically be sufficient. The setting
for shmmax may need to be increased if you have a large [config] Threads
value in eloqdb.cfg and use (the default) EnableIPC=2.
With EnableIPC=2 use
shmmni >= number of eloqdb servers
shmmax >= MAX of 32 KB * "max number of clients (Threads)" per eloqdb
With EnableIPC=1 use
shmmni >= SUM of "max number of clients (Threads)" per eloqdb
plus number of eloqdb servers
Using EnableIPC=2 is recommended for efficiency reasons.
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