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  Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X, Part 2
Subject:   ulimit and OSX 10.3
Date:   2004-02-09 23:54:29
From:   nettdata
So, after much mucking around, I've found a way to set the max processes for the oracle user in OSX. I was running into a problem where it was stuck at the default value of 100.


10.3 allows the use of the /etc/sysctl.conf file to set the initial kernel parameters at boot time.


It didn't exist on my system, so I created it with the following 2 lines:


kern.maxprocperuid=512
kern.maxproc=2048


After a reboot, I can then launch a bash shell and the user can increase their max allowed processes to 512 or less.


I set this up automatically in the .bashrc script for the user, so that whenever the bash script was launced it ran the following command:


ulimit -u 500


Setting this up has now allowed me to run the Oracle Developer seed on my new G5 without a problem.


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  • ulimit and OSX 10.3
    2004-02-12 01:23:03  badmanb [View]

    any chance that you did something else to get this to work?
    I added the two kern.maxxxx lines without success.
    I'm still getting ORA-03113

    Thanks in advance