sysctl.conf file not being read at bootup?

[Cleber P. de Souza]

Don't have you forgotten the "=" on your sysctl.conf for those values?


On 11/10/06, Dave Martini <martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov> wrote:
> I have an RHEL WS 4.0 host.
>
> I'm setting the kernel parameters for Oracle in /etc/sysctl.conf.
>
> When I reboot the machine the parameters never get set to what I've
> specified in my /etc/sysctl.conf file. Is there a reason for this?
> Notice the net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range is set to 65000 in sysctl.conf
> but after rebooting shows 61000. And the 3rd. value of kernel.sem is set
> to 100 in sysctl.conf but shows 32 after reboot.
> Thank You.
> Dave Martini
> LLNL
>
> # more /etc/sysctl.conf
> # Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux
> #
> # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled.  See sysctl(8) and
> # sysctl.conf(5) for more details.
>
> # Controls IP packet forwarding
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
>
> # Controls source route verification
> net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
>
> # Do not accept source routing
> net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
>
> # Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel
> kernel.sysrq = 0
>
> # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename.
> # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications.
> kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
> kernel.shmmax = 536870912
> kernel.sem 250  32000   100     128
> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 32768 65000
> net.core.rmem_default = 262144
> net.core.wmem_default = 262144
> net.core.rmem_max = 262144
> net.core.wmem_max = 262144
>
> AFTER REBOOT
>
> security]# sysctl -a |grep sem
> kernel.sem = 250        32000   32      128
>
>
> security]# sysctl -a |grep ip_local_port_range
> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 32768    61000
>
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Cleber P. de Souza