Re: Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 12:02:56 +0100, F. Fernandez wrote:
> I'm posting this message in debian-user and debian-testing since it
> relates both to slink and to potato so excuse me if you get it twice.
At the moment, debian-user is the appropriate list for both slink and
potato. debian-testing is for pre-release testing, in particular during a
code freeze.
> I'd like to know where can I find the patches to recompile the kernel
> 2.0.36 and/or 2.2.x so that the system supports more open files.
I've looked around at http://www.linuxhq.com/ but can't see them. I vaguely
recall that in 2.2.x, this type of resource should be configurable through a
/proc interface (/proc/sys/fs/file-nr ?).
> People at Informix and other users say that some patches are needed and
> point me to a RedHat URL that are useless to me. They also say that the
> 2.2.5 that comes with RH6.0 already has been patched to work with Informix
> and Oracle.
Please provide that URL. It may well be useful to help us look for what you
need.
> Are those patches available in Debian?
Usually distributions don't tweak the kernel nearly as much as they do
regular programs, so I would be extremely surprised if these patches
wouldn't work on Debian.
In any case, the Red Hat kernel sources are readily available (e.g.
ftp://sunsite.org.uk:/pub/packages/redhat/redhat-6.0/SRPMS/SRPMS/kernel-2.2.5-16.src.rpm).
"fakeroot alien --to-tgz kernel-2.2.5-16.src.rpm" gives a .tar.gz for them,
containing these patches:
aic7xxx-5.1.15-2.2.5.patch.gz i386-2.2.3-compression.patch ibcs-2.1-rh.patch
kernel-2.2.6-alpha.patch kernel-2.2.6-ftruncate.patch
kernel-2.2.6-mmap.patch kernel-2.2.6-shm.patch kernel-2.2.6-x86.patch
linux-2.2.3-tlan.patch linux-2.2.4-DAC960.patch linux-2.2.5-aarp.patch
linux-2.2.5-accessSuSv2.patch linux-2.2.5-alan.patch linux-2.2.5-alan2.patch
linux-2.2.5-alpha-smp.patch linux-2.2.5-alpha.patch
linux-2.2.5-alphasem.patch linux-2.2.5-dac960include.patch
linux-2.2.5-defrag.patch linux-2.2.5-networking.patch
linux-2.2.5-nohang.patch linux-2.2.5-pci2000.patch
linux-2.2.5-raid-0.90-B.patch linux-2.2.5-ramdisk.patch
linux-2.2.5-silly.patch linux-2.2.5-sparc.patch
linux-2.2.5-sparc64-aic.patch linux-2.2.5-tokenring.patch
linux-2.2.6-nbd.patch nfsd-2.2.5-1.patch nfsd-2.2.5-file.patch
pcmcia-cs-3.0.9-script.patch smart2-0.9.9-for-2.2.3.patch
Unfortunately, there is no obvious patch that deals with the number of open
file descriptors.
Ray
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