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Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

Unsupported or Obsolete Parameters

priority_paging and cachefree are Not Supported

The priority_paging and cachefree tunable parameters are not supported in the Solaris 9 release. They have been replaced with an enhanced file system caching architecture that implements paging policies similar to priority paging, but are always enabled. Attempts to set these parameters in the /etc/system file result in boot-time warnings such as: 


sorry, variable 'priority_paging' is not defined in the 'kernel'
sorry, variable 'cachefree' is not defined in the 'kernel'

The SUNWcsr packages that contain the /etc/system file have been modified so that the inclusion of the priority_paging or cachefree tunable parameters are prohibited. If you upgrade to the Solaris 9 release or pkgadd the SUNWcsr packages and your /etc/system file includes the priority_paging or cachefree parameters, the following occurs:

  1. This message is displayed if the priority_paging or cachefree parameters are set in the /etc/system file:


    /etc/system has been modified since it contains references to priority 
paging tunables. Please review the changed file.

  2. Comments are inserted in the /etc/system file before any line that sets priority_paging or cachefree. For example, if priority_paging is set to 1, the following lines are inserted before the line with the priority_paging value:


* NOTE: As of Solaris 9, priority paging is unnecessary and has been removed. 
* Since references to priority paging-related tunables will now result in 
* boot-time warnings, the assignment below has been commented out. For more 
* details, see the Solaris 9 Release Notes, or the "Solaris Tunable Parameters
* Reference Manual".

Obsolete Parameters

The following parameters are now obsolete.