physmem
Parameter
- Description
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Modifies the system's configuration of the number of physical pages of memory after the Oracle Solaris OS and firmware are accounted for.
- Data Type
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Unsigned long
- Default
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Number of usable pages of physical memory available on the system, not counting the memory where the core kernel and data are stored
- Range
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1 to amount of physical memory on system
- Units
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Pages
- Dynamic?
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No
- Validation
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None
- When to Change
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Whenever you want to test the effect of running the system with less physical memory. Because this parameter does not take into account the memory used by the core kernel and data, as well as various other data structures allocated early in the startup process, the value of
physmem
should be less than the actual number of pages that represent the smaller amount of memory. - Commitment Level
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Unstable