Introduction

You may need to modify your HP-UX 11i kernel in some way, such as changing a kernel parameter, and then rebuild your kernel. You may need to create a new HP-UX kernel in order to add device drivers or subsystems, to tune the kernel to get improved performance, to alter configurable parameters, or to change the dump and swap devices. If you update or modify a dynamic element of your kernel, as shown in the example in this chapter, a reboot is not required. Updating or modifying a static element requires a reboot and may also require some additional steps.

With HP-UX 11i it is not necessary to rebuild your kernel for all changes that take place to it. In 11i, there are many Dynamically Tunable Kernel Parameters and Dynamically Loadable ...

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