PRIMECLUSTER Global File Services Configuration and Administration Guide 4.2 (Solaris(TM) Operating Environment)

2.11 Action Environment

GFS Local File System allocates memory cache area of meta-data part (explained at "2.6 Unique Meta-data Cache Management") for each file system.

In other words, the following memory capacity is necessary for GFS Local File System as hardware requirements. Here, n means the number of GFS Local File System mounted.

(2.0 + 5.0 * n) megabytes or more than

The size of memory cache area of meta-data part can perform tuning for quantity of resource of file system.

There are two methods to perform tuning it.

• Specify an option in mount(1M)
• Edit /etc/system file

About the method to change size of memory cache area of meta-data part, refer to "9.2 Performance and Tuning"

And, in GFS Local File System, kernel stack area size is changed 16 Kbytes in package installation in 32-bit of Solaris OE.