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2.12.5.9. SCO OpenServer 6.0.x Notes

OpenServer 6 includes these key improvements:

  • Larger file support up to 1 TB

  • Multiprocessor support increased from 4 to 32 processors

  • Increased memory support up to 64GB

  • Extending the power of UnixWare into OpenServer 6

  • Dramatic performance improvement

OpenServer 6.0.0 commands are organized as follows:

  • /bin is for commands that behave exactly the same as on OpenServer 5.0.x.

  • /u95/bin is for commands that have better standards conformance, for example Large File System (LFS) support.

  • /udk/bin is for commands that behave the same as on UnixWare 7.1.4. The default is for the LFS support.

The following is a guide to setting PATH on OpenServer 6. If the user wants the traditional OpenServer 5.0.x then PATH should be /bin first. If the user wants LFS support then the path should be /u95/bin:/bin. If the user want UnixWare 7 support first then the path would be /udk/bin:/u95/bin:/bin:.

We recommend using the latest production release of MySQL.

We have been able to compile MySQL with the following configure command on OpenServer 6.0.x:

CC="cc" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" \
CXX="CC" CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
    --enable-thread-safe-client --with-berkeley-db=./bdb \
    --with-innodb --with-openssl --with-extra-charsets=complex \
    --enable-readline

If you want to use gcc, you must use gcc 2.95.3 or newer.

CC=gcc CXX=g++ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql

The version of Berkeley DB that comes with either UnixWare 7.1.4 or OpenServer 6.0.0 is not used when building MySQL. MySQL instead uses its own version of Berkeley DB. The configure command needs to build both a static and a dynamic library in src_directory/bdb/build_unix/, but it does not with MySQL's own BDB version. The workaround is as follows.

  1. Configure as normal for MySQL.

  2. cd bdb/build_unix/

  3. cp -p Makefile to Makefile.sav

  4. Use same options and run ../dist/configure.

  5. Run gmake.

  6. cp -p Makefile.sav Makefile

  7. Change to top source directory and run gmake.

This allows both the shared and dynamic libraries to be made and work. OpenServer 6.0.0 also needs patches to the MySQL source tree and the patch for config.guess applied to bdb/dist/config.guess. You can download the patches from ftp://ftp.zenez.com/pub/zenez/prgms/mysql-4.1.12-osr6-patches.tar.gz and from ftp://ftp.zenez.com/pub/zenez/prgms/mysql-4.x.x-osr6-patches. There is a README file there to assist.

SCO provides OpenServer 6 operating system patches at ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver6.

SCO provides information about security fixes at ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/security/OpenServer.

By default, the maximum file size on a OpenServer 6.0.0 system is 1TB. Some operating system utilities have a limitation of 2GB. The maximum possible file size on UnixWare 7 is 1TB with VXFS or HTFS.

By default, the entries in /etc/conf/cf.d/mtune are set to:

Value           Default         Min             Max
-----           -------         ---             ---
SVMMLIM         0x9000000       0x1000000       0x7FFFFFFF
HVMMLIM         0x9000000       0x1000000       0x7FFFFFFF
SSTKLIM         0x1000000       0x2000          0x7FFFFFFF
HSTKLIM         0x1000000       0x2000          0x7FFFFFFF

We recommend setting these values as follows:

SDATLIM 0x7FFFFFFF
HDATLIM 0x7FFFFFFF
SSTKLIM 0x7FFFFFFF
HSTKLIM 0x7FFFFFFF
SVMMLIM 0x7FFFFFFF
HVMMLIM 0x7FFFFFFF
SFNOLIM 2048
HFNOLIM 2048

We recommend tuning the system, but the proper parameter values to use depend on the number of users accessing the application or database and size the of the database (that is, the used buffer pool). The following affects the kernel parameters defined in /etc/conf/cf.d/stune:

SHMMAX (recommended setting: 128MB) and SHMSEG (recommended setting: 15). These parameters have influence on the MySQL database engine to create user buffer pools.

SFNOLIM and HFNOLIM should be at maximum 2048.

NPROC should be set to at least 3000/4000 (depends on number of users).

Also is recommended to use following formula to count value for SEMMSL, SEMMNS, and SEMMNU:

SEMMSL = 13

13 is what has been found to be the best for both Progress and MySQL.

SEMMNS = SEMMSL * number of db servers to be run on the system.

Set SEMMNS to the value of SEMMSL multiplied by the number of db servers (maximum) that you are running on the system at one time.

SEMMNU = SEMMNS

Set the value of SEMMNU to equal the value of SEMMNS. You could probably set this to 75% of SEMMNS, but this is a conservative estimate.


 
 
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