Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

Tuning the Linux operating system

If Oracle SOA Suite 11g is installed on a Linux operating system, consider increasing the ulimit for environments with large load. This is to avoid the following error, which appears in the /var/log/messages log under heavy load:

Dec 25 20:53:22 soahost1 sshd[22480]: fatal: setresuid 10000: Resource temporarily unavailable

As the root user, perform the following:

1. Add the following in /etc/security/limits.conf (assuming the product is installed by the oracle Unix user):

   oracle soft nproc 16384
   oracle hard nproc 63536
   oracle soft nofile 16384
   oracle hard nofile 63536
   

2. Add the following in /etc/profile (for 32-bit operating systems):

   if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then ulimit -p 16384 ulimit ...