1. Cloud Control Database Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide
  2. Appendixes
  3. Checking Host Readiness Before Provisioning or Patching
  4. Shell Limits

Shell Limits

To improve the performance of the software on Linux systems, increase the following shell limits for the Oracle software owner users such as crs, oracle, asm, and so on. To do so, run the following commands:

  • Add the following values into the limits.conf file located under the /etc/security/ directory:

    • oracle soft nproc 2047

    • oracle hard nproc 16384

    • oracle soft nofile 1024

    • oracle hard nofile 65536

  • Add the following line into the /etc/pam.d/login file, or edit the /etc/pam.d/login file to include the following if it does not exist already:

    session required pam_limits.so