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Status Future consideration
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 15, 2023

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AIX Live update fd helper support for more than 64K sockets needed

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We normally use AIX Live Update for patching all our lpars including production servers. We have Oracle applications which have more than 64K sockets open during operation, which is currently  unsupported by AIX live update (LKU)  procedure,  because there is a single fd helper process involved  to move the workload  and that will hit max open files per proces limit. Such a limit can thus only be bypassed by spawning addtional fd-helpers which might also improve the performance of the LKU. 

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 15, 2023

    Second that, high end users should be able to do this.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 15, 2023

    Live update is crucial for our patch mangement.

    This behavior blocks us now for updating Oracle database servers via Live Updates.

    Greetings Christian Sonnemans.

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 15, 2023

    Very important indeed, hope IBM will pick this up a.s.a.p.!

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