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About LMX Tunable Parameters

Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/lmx to change the values of the LMX driver tunable global parameters. The following table describes the LMX driver tunable parameters:

LMX Parameter

Description

Default Value

Maximum Value

LMX_MINOR_MAX 

Specifies the maximum number of contexts system-wide. Each Oracle process typically has two LMX contexts.  

"Contexts" and "minors" are used interchangeably in the documentation; "context" is an Oracle-specific term and should be used to specify the value in the lmx.conf file. 

2048 

65535 

LMX_PORT_MAX 

Specifies the number of communication endpoints for transferring messages from the sender to the receiver in a uni-directional manner.  

2048 

65535 

LMX_BUFFER_MAX 

Specifies the number of addressable regions in memory to which LMX data can be copied.  

1024 

65535